The Nevada journal., 1856-01-11
WHOLE NO. 296.
Fol di dol, dol di dol, di dol;
I'll never make money my idol
With my friend and my pitcher,
I'm twenty times richer
Than if l made money my idol,
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Than if made money my idol,
Fol di dol, dol di dol, di dol.
Mr.. Webster, in the midst of his family,
and with his children and grandchildren
around, was not little given to oif-hand
rhyming, and would greatly divert them
by his extempore English heroics, IN
which the sonorous march of the rythn
would be humorously disproportioned to
the trihing nature of his theme
At one time in his youth, some OF his
friends earnestly pressed upon him ;ho
duty of entering the Christian ministry,
and he was won't to tell, with evident en-
joyment, the story of his being advised
to assume the business OF NecIomancy
An old man, who enjoyed the reputation
in his native village of his being a wizard
assured young Daniel that he was just
made for conjurer,' and as there were
at that time great many stray cattle to
be found, the business offered good
opening. He concluded by Offering to
take the future statesman into partner
ship, and to so halves with him in tie
profits
An incident related OF his courtship /
do not remember to have seen recorded
He was then a young lawyer of Ports
mouth, n. Ii. AT one Of his visits 10
Miss Grace Fletcher be had, probably
with view Of combining utility and enjoy
ment, been holding skeins of silk thread
for her, when suddenly he stopped, say
ing, Grace, we have thus been engaged
in untying knots; let US see if We can
lnat
lifetime.' He then took piece of tape,
and, after beginning knot of a peculiar
kind, gave it to her to complete This
was the ceremony and ratification Of their
engagement. And now in little box.
marked by him with the words Precious
Documents containing the letters of his
courtship, this unique memorial is still 10
be found The knot has never been ua
tied.
Perhaps the most interesting relic OF
Mr. Webster which will be Incorporated
in these volumes will be his autobiogra-
ply, as yet unpublished, written by him
in the year 1929, for his friend Mrs. L
B. Lee, of Boston. It is written in his
clear, legible hand, and covers sixty-three
pages of letter paper. The time over
which the narrative extends is from his
birth IN 1889, to his final settlement as a
lawyer in Boston, in 1916. The 4rsb
four years of his congressional life are
thus taken in, while he represented New
Hampshire in the House of Represents
tives. The whole history of his humble
beginning, his struggles to obtain an edu
cation, his experience as collegian and
law student, the books he read, his first
Efforts at newspaper writing, arc here re-
lated. He also at times alludes to his
eminent contemporaries in the legal pro
fession, of whom he places his friend, the
distinguished Jeremiah Mason, at the
head; and [ observed two elaborate par
alleis copied by him from his journal.
written while a law student in Boston. be-
tween Samuel Dexter and Theophiius
Parsons, then the two rival leaders Of the
Boston bar, evincing no little discrinina-
ton and power Of intellectual ANALYSIS
His first meeting with Gov. Gore, into
whose Office he first entered to pursue the
law, is told quite amusingly. He was
then a rather raw young man from the
country, and felt obliged to make long
and studied apology for the want of letters
of introduction, which he offered to 90
and procure. Governor Gore, however,
who appears to have been satisfied By in
spection of the character of his visitor.
cuts him short, by telling him to come
back, hang up his hat, and sit down to his
books at once, adding that he might pro
cure the letters at his leisure