Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-08-21
From Dickens Household Words.

sounds and sights2 l do believe if you wer,
| among the blessed, you would find something
to make grievance of. Your voice sounds dis
cordant'
"Ah, Gray returned the other, as for thu
glory and beauty, it is the glory and beauty
bewall. This is the pity of it. How cruel tina
this gate of life should be made so fine but tina
when we have passed through it, behold for u'
who have bad an experience OF dreamland
nothing but the pitiless world. I have youth
! have wealth. | have money here. l have
dear trlends-you, Gray, the chief-and there il
not single duty in this college life which Car
be called distasteful.'
Morning Chapel7' suggested Gray.
L have taken as high places in the o1amina
ton rs expected
We'll, then. what is the matter? What il
the Fiend's name, are you coming tor
This, man; that it must all end and I know
not how soon. How can / enjoy the noontide
when, perhaps, L may never another sum-
If Sir William withdrew his protection, shoe
| be beggar tomorrow.
Indeed! But l knew one once who reminds
me of you very strongly. He was a prudent
youth who would never touch pudding in vaca
ton time, for fear he should miss it when he 90
back to school, and | remember he died (anC
served him righD the very first day of oul
| Christmas holidays. Think of the good thing.
that poor boy must have lost for a whole six
weeks, and take warning. Seriously, wha
right have you to be Disconnected? Compareyou1
| fate with mine, and reap a horrid joy. l have
no rich patron to help me even for little time
and though l be scholar, a fellowship is toe
wide leap for me. Old Doctor Wild is my pc
ct, and has sung my song before:
SIN melancholy study
None but myself
Methought my grew muddy
After seven ears reading
Aud costly breeding
felt but could find no pelf.
Into learned regs l We rent my plush and satin,
And now am tit TO beg in Hebrew, Greek and Latin
Instead OF Aristotle would had got patten
Alas b.! poor scholar whittier wilt thou go?
Cambridge, I must leave thee,
And follow fate;
College hopes do deceive me-
To have been elected.
But desert is reprobate,
Masters of colleges have common graces
And they that have felowshps have but places
And those that scholars are they have handsome
Alas i! poor scholars; whittier wilt thou go?
NAY, my good friend Leonard" said the
! other
81 have hit it,
Peace, good man, fool,
Thou hast trade viii fit it;
Draw thy indenture,
Be fond Of adventure,
An apprentice to free school;
There thou mayst command.
By William Lilly. charter
There thou mayst whip, strip,
And hang and draw and quarter,
And commit to the red rod,
Both VIII. and Tom and Arthur;
Ay, ay tits thither, thither wilt thou go.
1 should never have given you, Persy, cred
it for knowing that old song; III wager there s
no other Trinity man who does. But you re
right, / must take to tutoring
L wish, for my own part, said Persy, mourn
fully, that / had never left it,
You a tutor Why, what do you mean,
Brooke?'
sit down on the slopng grass here under
IF tha hrid on1I toll tola NV
friend, which will astonish you.
Where | was born i cannot accurately state,
but 1t must have been some nineteen years ago,
or by'r Lady, inclining to a score. My parents
Heaven forgive me so speaking of the authors
OF my being-interested themselves about me
to the extent of ringing the gate bell of certain
work house in Hampshire, and leaving me out
side with an insufficient provision of flannel
In that stately and wel-swept mansion / spent
my earlier years; my dress was of similar COL
or to this present Trinity gown, but ola coarser
material"
What happened to you at the work-house!'
My skin was kept very clean and my hair
cut remarkably close, but otherwise | had little
to complain of. There is no bullying TO speak
of among your work-house people-nothing like
your public school despotisms, for instance-but
there is also no play. For nay part, l liked the
school hours as well as any part of my time ,ex-
cept perhaps when l was in the old mems ward
When could get in there upon the sly, and lis
ten to their story of the great world without, I
suppose was as happy as l then could be. /
had to skim across little paved court like a
swallow, in order to escape the eyes of the mas
ter and his wife, who seemed to be always
watching out of the four windows of their sit
ting room at once. If caught, | was shut up
and kept on bread and water; if otherwise, |
was well paid for all my risks. Imagine little
unfurnished, du.ky bedroom, smelling of old
hol ha; Of leo
to me! Each upon the edge of his truckle bed,
sat smoking, bear-eyed, mis- shapen, toothless.
The oldest mans constant topic of conversation
was the American war; he was a church and
king man of a very obstinate character and de-
Tended the most despotic and illegal acts. He
had been Il soldier and had receiv ed terrible
wound Con Bunker hill, Think He was in
tensely proud of the scar which he constantly
displayed TO the minister, or whomsoever else,
might visit him. | don't remember his name
and indeed l doubt whether at that time he re-
membered it himself; but we called him Crutchy
because he walked with couple of sticks. Bill,
| Ter, who was the next Oldest man was leader of
the opposition and red-hot radical He had
been imprisoned, when already in years, for the
/ Republican principles at the Peterboro period
and the way in which he disposed of the king
and the lords and the bishops, beat Thinker al
the Cambridge Union. He would look round
! turtivey, make sure there was no spy IN the
camp; hobble TO the door to see the mast er was
not outside even; and then, in reply to some ag
gravated statement which Crutchy had made
would assert in loud whisper that those three
were "a pack of rogueS as ever was. These
contests were immensely interesting to me; anC
l confess / sided with the fiery Biler. Crutchy
sat alone, with certain dignity, like one of the
early gods, lamenting the new order of thing;
upon the earth. If any person woke him up OF
a sudden to ask him any question. no matter
what, ne would reply without hesitation, 'They
should send out tleet sir which, as was gen
orally understood, was his plan for a recovery o
the American colonies.
Next TO this parliament, as said, liked M
school times. AT eight years old was grea
scholar, and the pedagogue's favorite. He men
tened me to the parson, and his reverence wa
as pleased as he; the parsons wife, too, Mrs
Farmer, fell in levs with my eyes, and my hal
that would have curled if the ruthless shears o
workhouse destiny had permitted it; and afte
some consultation with tie squire, Sir william
Persy, was removed 20 a higher sphere-th