Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-11-30
From Bentley's Miscellany
THE FATE OF A RICH THIEF;
Dr., .The Way Of the Transsrrssor Is 1Inrd.,

! Onc Sabbah morn, IN the year IL, the Oc-
tagon chapel, in the gay and then fashionable
city of Bath, was crowded to excess A colec-
tion was to be made at the end of the service
| IN aid OF the funds for supporting the Brdewel
charty-school. Let it not be supposed that the
majority OF the congregation assembled for the
humane purpose of clothing the bodies of hun.
dred boys in dowlus shirts, and blue coats, or
their lower limbs in rhubarb-coiored leather gar.
ments, and pcpper.and-sat worsted hose,-no
such thing,-FAsuioN, that frcakish and de.
spotic tyrant, had converted sacred edfcc in
to rendezvous of her votaries
: And now, having told our readers why so
/ large an assembIage were gathered together,
we must beg them to suppose that all have re.
tired home much edited and improved, and that
one o'clock on the Monday morning has ar.
rived
The boys ofthc Brdewel school were let out
for their brief hour Of play; some ten or twelve
OF the youngsters, in a remote corner of the ward
had gathered into cluster, listening with o.
pcned mouths and upraiscd brows, to something
strange and wonderful related by lad named
Harry Nowels. The narrator was one of the
brightest and best behaved boys of the school,
fond of his books, and although not so robust a :
many This companions, was usually their lead.
er in all sports and pastimes
Nosooner were the slender juveniles" seated
IN due order upon their forms, than one of the
| other boys made his way to the desk of the mas.
ter, and lntlmated, almost in a whisper, that he
had something of vast importance TO communi
cate; he was ordered to ascend the steps, and
place himself close to the ear of the ever will
! ling listener. In few moments, the master,
his face flushed with emotion, and his eyes dart
| ing angry gIances towards .he seat which lIar..
| ry occupied. called out his name in tone that
seemed 10 proPhesy the speedy application of
| the cane or birch.
Come h'ther, you young vipcr' he roared
come hiihcr, you Nowcls, say, and let me
hear this cock and bull story you've invented a.
bout what happened yesterday Il, the cha pei.
! door,
There's not n bit of invention in it, sir, no
more than anything about either bulls or cocks
| VOW and protest that | saw the gentleman
who held the plate for the collection take both
silver and gold off the saver, and put the money
| into his waiStcoat and small clothes pockets
'Do you know what you're talking about Won
wicked young wretch = demanded the master
why, that was Doctor Mitchell, one of the first
/ physicians of the city,-ljvrs in the Circus, nrd
keeps his carriage aud host of servants. Now
come, Nowcls, confess It's big story, and III
/ let yon Off with a Gaming; but if you stick to
your text, III fog you rlivcr
i never told liz in my life, SIR the boy rc-
pIrod, 'and punishment won, force me to do So ;
Wen try that. my fine fellow, by and by. a
mighty pretty thing, indeed for chari,y.boy
! like you, to gn about taking away the chnrsc.
icrs Of your bCt,crs. But and here the 'lrarn.
! ed ond humane Mr. Murch chuckled at his b.
! ing able to institute something Ike croSs.cxanl-
/ inatjon-'hut, Nowels, | have a question now TO
put, ThicI will call upon all yonr talent as
/ storyteer 10 answer. 1t is ,hs-'aud ,h,ls
saying, lie took fl his sprcraces, " iped both
glasses very deliberately With his aandker.
chlct, held iem 10 the iigt, 10 ascertain If his
operation had been successful placed them care.
fully Oh the bridge of his nose, and then. with
an air worthy OF an Old Bailey practitioner,
coHt'nued, Now, boy, we will, for arguments
sake, suppose for moment, that such an in,
possible thing did take place, how could you,
from your place in the gallery, see wha, was
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