Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-03

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there was little or 70 Indication Of be1ievd
leBees or liberaiity answered asosnewha
gruffly as 81 ssiazsz-E 81 10 so4s2sE
81 There's tavern not far off, Sir. t.zs
But I have not cent Of money ingeai
ously replied Mr. Fairblosom
/ s"Oh! and pray, why mightn q YOU as wel
beg Shelter from the tagefe keeper frsa
nle2 2 demanded thesmajon. He kss more &C
Communications and is less particular than AZ
as to what sort Of people be has in his hoase
i Try old Wingleton in the main street; he take
ii almost anybody" -z s'a'Es -
r. This WiiIgleten was the Feny landlord aUtsl
had. refused. to let Fair biesem have dime
i on the ''creait system" wherefore the yourS
/ man answered with some e:nbarrassmef5t:
/. II have already had an interview with tha-
/ person. 7a -. Z
r. "AB, Ba, he knows you too @eHI suppose
said silpertI1eFn with sort of viBdiet tive trs
alnph. II Judged Young tnan.zWhen you cen
/ fessed that .sou had no money, that you were
a suspicious sort Of chap, and / think now that
I remember hearing that Wingieton had j
pair of silver sugar tongs stolen from him late
idy.s Good night to you, and bear in mind that
there's steel thieftrap and. a very savage
watch dog about my premises" - :
Here the Major slammed the door and fas-
! tened it, and T Fairblosom, after standing para
lyzed-a few moments, and almost doubling . II
this were The same planet in which he had
hitherto resided, turned away with many sor-
rowful and some angry reflections. He made
one more trial to obtain lodging at neigh
boring house. but the individual who peked
his night-capped head out of asAsindowaato
aRsHerl the summons, merely referred him
sas, Major Slverthorn, had done, to. the tag-
ern, and then closed the conference and the
window. " zs 4~ - -
p Seeing barn close at hand, and Fenen15eF-
ing to have read in novels xagrants llaEias
taken shelter ia such psaees,. Fairhlessem
tried the door, and finding it unfhstened,
entered and threw himself upon. "a 1pis of
straw.
II was cool night in early spring, and the
Indifferent substitute for the warm feather bed
10 whieAHonr hero had been accustomed did
not make him quite eomfertables When be
awoke in the morning he could not imagine
what produced such stiffness and aching in
his limbs; and between this and the fact that
he was half fafnished for want Of food, he
could scarcely drag himself along. He man
aged, however, by stopping every now and
then to rest, to reach the landing place of the
steamboat to Philadelphia, to which place he
hoped to make his escape.
a boat was about to start, and Fairblos-
som very frankly related 10 the collector Of
fares, the whole story OF his experiment
promising to pay for his passage with the ad-
dition of handsome bonus, as soon as he arr
rived at Philadelphia.
To his modification the steamboat man
seemed 10 regard it as quite incredible, that a
E;-s ssaarsas should voi1nfasiIr make suchs
ID trial Of poverty
"For,' said he every sucking baby knows
that 30 person can get along i'll this world
without money"
Fairblossom was about 20 resign himself TO
despair. when his hand was cIasped by bis
friend Lullins, who, knowing that the young
man would get into difficulties, had consider
ately come to, Burlington on purpose to meet
him. Lukins viewed with concern the pale
and haggard app arance of poor Fairblos-
son. who honestly confessed that be had learn
ed more of human nature by this one days
experiment than he had in all his previous
lie.
A few years after, however, Mr.. Fairbios-
som spoke of his penniless pilgrimage as
very fortunate event, as it served to make him
acquainted with the amiable character of Ros-
anna, the pie-baker's daughter, who is now
Mrs Fairblossom, aud is regarded by Mr. f.
as the only specimen of humanity that will