Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-05-08
One icho has DIED ,riihnui Lirinr

Mr. Pau. Legrand died few weeks 100 n, Dim
IN burgundy, at the age Of ~, leaving the follow
lived: " ''0 NV
AN that IS suffering sorrow, ennui despair de-
sire, regret. should be deducted from life, because
we should ourselves have deduc,e, it. had HEAVEN
permitted.
when three year, old, WAS weaned; at six /
could speak, but badly; at seven I ,pit my skull;
al nine was cured. Unjust therefore subtract nine
years from my ex stence; for surely to drink nur
SEES sour milk, not TO speak, or TO speak badly. and
10 splli ones skull, is not living.
Al Tie age Of nine began my studies. Owing
10 my cracked skull, my head was hard one and
proved deaf TO tuition; required two wears tbor 10
sPeI' me alphabet. was indebted to the letter H.
alone Tor four score hundred lashes. The other 90
letters made complete martyr Of me. At the age
n' Twelve could read, but my body was mnnsled
ny TIE alphabet scars. An attempt was made 10
teach me Latin, and lost my French in the expe-
rIment' At hiteen knew nothing at all, and A
forced diet OF bread and water had reduced m. IN
skeleton. Ok years more therefore TO be de-
Quoted. Al sixteen my father made me a no,ary,s
S'erk. Then commenced new series of MARTYR.
dom' got up at six; swept the office; lighted The
Stove, was drubbed 10y the teller clerks, and nv
la!her overwhelmed with complaints about me, de.
prlVed me ofmy dinner. This sort of life led for
hve years, and from my life will positively deduct
them. AT twenty, my father quite disguised with
MS son, put me on board ship at Cherbourg. 1
washed the deck, crept up the topnast, mended the
Sas, and received thirty lashes day upon the back
This was endured four years.
Al twenty-our my father made me a ha berda ms
err married Mad'le Ursule Dsvosns, n turner's
daughter her portion consisted OF thirty thousa nd
''Vres mortgaged upon sugar estate IN St. Domin.
go. Inc day after the wedding found gu, that n,
wi'e had wooden leg, made by her father the
turner. The poor woman made a thous, md apolo-
gies for her rhrmiiy, and pardoned her out of re-
speci to her marriage portion.
Inc -. Domingo blacks rose against the whites
nnrni the marriage portion, and the wooden leg was
all that was left TO me.-At thirty lost my wife in
consequence OF scrofula disease in her leg |
spent slI years Of marriage, Iepenting every mi
mute. What folly | committed in taking that legi
| therefore deduct those six years ofmy life Hiv.
log as every body else, slept thgd part Of my life
deduct "a years of sleep, and | am below right
reckoning, for was great sleeper. A year lost,
adding minute 10 minute, IN searching for the KEYS
OF my desk, which | was continually misl wing
Does one live when one looks for a key1 Three
years lost in having myself shaved, powdered. &c.
Five years lost suffering the toothache, two inf I'm
nations Of the chest, with rsapscs and GONZALES.
cence. Three years lost IN saying what o'clock!'
we have bad weather to day. How is your
LADY," 4 have had cold. 'Malborough's eh-va
t.engune, what mud in the streets, what winter
this year, Six months lost in having the mud
brushed OF one, and six in bushing ones hat. One
year OF endurance of the entactes of the theatre
One yer lost 10 listening TO the modern dramas
cheis d'GuVre OF genius not understood. One yeir
lost IN complaining OF SAT- and iastsloss soups, of
outlets too much under done, of Indigestion, of
hard eggs, &c. Total, II years. beg leave to de.
clare that IN giving up the ghoS, [ do not give I'D
any thing worth keeping"