The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-01-13

way, teaching school one half the year In pay
my college expenses for the other until find
myself in some lawyers shop in arrears with
my landlady in debt to my washerwomau-de-
testing to walk up the street because | should
pass the tailors stOre-abhorring 10 walk down
/ 1t because should be sure to see the shoemaker
standing in his door With no more comfort
or convenience in my life than can be enjoyed
between my little 5ack-chamber, up four pair
of stairs in II cheap boarding house, and the
straight backed chair and high-tOpped desk of
the law shop. And no more love, or hope or
poetry, in my life than may be found bound up
between the covers of Coke upon Lyttleton. Or
| perhaps ! shall turn private tutor and adver-
tise, highly respectable young gentleman
graduate of Yale College, wishes to obtain
&c; and you, who will be by this time the
grave head of family. with several little do
mestic liabilities, will probably answer the adj
vertisement and shall find myself teaching
the names of the keys Of knowledge to young
Mark and his brothers Obj
Ha +! ha! ha ha! ha! ha! ha laughed
Sutherland
"Oh, you'll patronze me rather You'll be
kind TO me for you'll say to yourself and
| friends, He was college friend Of mine, poor
fellow fancy hear and see you saying it
now. with that careless, cordial. Jolly conde-
scension of yours"
"Ha! hal ha! ha ma ha! ha MY dear
Lincoln! My dear fellow why should that
be? Why should you be pettifogger or peda-
gogue, unless you have vocation for it a.? Why
should anybody do what they don't want to
dot Life is rich-full of wealth, and love- and
JOY, and glory. Enter and take possession"
" Enter and take possession Yes, that is
what you can do Life is full of wealth, and
love- and joy and glory for you, indeed and
you can afford to mock me with those words
But never mind, my fine famingo! ] have
heard the wise say that happiness is not so I'M
equally distributed. after all And |, for one
don't believe this cake of comfort is going to be
30 very unjustly divided between us, or that You
will have all the white sugar on the top and
all the burnt paper at the bottom
"See here, my friend, remember that we
good or-nOthing Mississippians are not initia-
ted into the mysteries Of the kitchen, and there
fore don't understand your culinary figure of
speech at all"
oh, go on 60 on! You're young bear!p
"a young bear Comrades! Oh, they arc
all gone! young bear! Oh, suppose he nj
ludes TO my black whiskers and hair and my
shag oyercoat
"Imean your trouble is all before you'll"
Trouble Oh, my dear boy that is 4 word
without meaning Trouble What is troubles
What idea is the word designed to represent?
Troublel Oh, my dear fellow it is all mis-
take a mere notion, asuperstition, prejudice;
saying of old folks, who, being near the verge
of departure from this bright, glad, joyous, ju-
bilant world, vainly try to console themselves
by slandering it as a world of trouble and talk
OF better one to which they are progressing
If this world in itself is not good, as the Gre
ator pronounced it to be in the beginning by
all the rules of comparison, how can any other
world be said to be better?"
"Woll, believe in the better world as much
as they do; but look you the peasantest no.
II "A lsEe of Heaven is its being-bcing -