The Arkansas banner., 1846-12-30
I Written for the Dollar Newspaper Philadelphia ]
 Jack Bramble's Family Bible.
BY WILLIAM II. M'cALLA.
PART I.

bh hlLLlAh M GAGEA.
 PART I.
 In certain small lawyers office, situated in certain portion of the goodly city of London, upon certain bright morning in the month of August, with the warm, cheer iul rays oi the sun darting in through the dirty panes of glass in the front windows, serving to reveal more plainly the old and dlscolored paper upon the walls, and the bare cheerless look of the whole apartment --at certain tall desk, seated upon stove of proportionate altitude, there was upon the morning in question a young man, whom, for want of better, we will call by the name of Jack Bramble
 Jack Bramble, to use familiar, but still very profound saying, was the son of ssold Bramble," which very worthy and excellent old gentleman was. at the time Jack first had any recollection of him, widower. with the latter named parsonage as the only surviving relic of his family The old gentleman was a pawnhroker-and very few in that line of business there was who advanced more literally upon the articles offered, or spoke more kindly to the unlortunates who brought them, than he did. He had, by dint of sav- ing aud scraping, amasseda considerable sum of the ''dollaIs," when sudden attack of that unfortunate disease, called Friendship, led him to endorse fos friend, which friend, | (can there Dc any doubt that he must have been one:) about the time the sum came due, was among ,he stssHt Immediately he cre-
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 ,o2- except an uncle, who had some wears previous gone to America without nome, and moneyless. Poor Jack, for long time did he play at bat,ledore and shuulecock with the troubles of this world, until at last. in his eight year, friendly blow from a benevolent bat.ledore lodged him safely in a clothed and educated. At school, in some things, Jack soon become a proficient: for instance, no boy could be classed as his rival at marbles, and in fight Jack was the champion of the ring. But n the school room, and At his -beeks, Jack -waS- a. perfect nu.Gc kull he could not mbibe knowledge :; the waters of the Piefian spring tasted as dissgreeable 10 him as the Bath waters do to those who first drink them. There was one thing, though, which Jack could do, and tha. was to write-wrting was his sole pleasure; set him al that, and he would eclipse all the other boys in the school. In fact, he be- came so proficient in the art of caligraphy, that he was appointed as sort o( monitor or under teacher to the rest of the scholars. which honorable situation Jack accepted with sincere pleasure, as 1t afforded him on op- portunity of taking revenge upon several boys who had jeered him about his learning, by setting them strange and difficult copies
 Jack staid at school nntll-- until, in truth, he became too large to stay any longer; and then his master, who was kind-hearted man, as most all good teachers are. obtained for him seat at the desk of a lawyer, which seat he had occupied, off and on, for the last six years of his life, and where we discover him upon the morning of which we write.
 Imagine to yourselves, kind readers, the picture of young man, apparently about three and twenty with small, but well-form- ed figure, rather pale complexion, pair of dark eyes, and large quantity of hair of a like hue; 10 which, by adding iolerable well-shaped nose and mouth, you can form a very correct idea of Jack Bramble's per- sonal appearance.
 Upon the morning m question, however, Jack was certainly in no way ft 10 sit for his portrait. 4 peculiar retlness about the eyes and nose, together with certain flush upon his whole countenance, would soon have informed any one at all versed in such matters thai, upon the previous evening. Jack had been on irolic. Such was the fact He had been cui with some of the "B'hoys,n and, from a confused notion he had of seeing two lamps, instead of one, upon the little table in the entry when he got home, besides finding the staircase singuiariy crooked and ill-contrived, he had, upon awaking, arrived at the conclusion that he, Jack Bramble, must upon the previous night have been very druak
 Jack felt upon this bright morning, as some people very significantly describe il, 'slike rag" His mouth fell dreadful hol and parched, and he hadn't even sixpence left wherewith to get, as Swiveller says, ga modest auenchcr,"
 'D D---n it,'' he sad, taking ,lp a large ruler in lis hand, ''whai a> >wrclched life this is, Day in and day out, here l an, poking al this internal old desk, and all for four dollars week, scarcely enough 10 pay my board. Blow that old uncle of mine in America-if he'd only kick Inc bucket, and leave me something handsome, wouldn't l