The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-12
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did you contract such onerous obligA. donsr
 Well, as was saying in that at.ic lived, and there l labored to prepare m7- self for my first examination and hadn't a farthipg that could cal my own You understand, things had come 10 one oi those passes with me which induce fel- low 10 swear that he'll throw up the sponge and turn soldier. One hops however remained to me. was expect ing boxiuI of linen from home; a pres sent from one Of those old aunts who, in complete and blissful ignorance of wha Pans is fancy that an allowance of i've andtwenly pounds will enable fellow 70 feast upon ortolans, and who, meanwhile concentrate all their attention upon hi, shirts. Well, the trunk arrived in due cou SC; but when it came l was at the hospital, and on my return found that there was thirty shiliings to pay for car nage, in which amount stood indebted to the porter of the house, who had paid the money for me aud kept the trunk should be afraid to say how many times paced up and down the Rue des F,sses Saint Germain and the Rue de Ecole de-Meoecine, vainly cudgelling my btAin in the attempt to devise plan for ex ri. eating my trunk from the porters clutches without handing over the thirty shillings which had not got, but which mean, to raise by selling the linen. My lack ot ingenuity on thls occasion convinced me there and then that surgery was my only possible voca ion. Fo- frankly say Il delicate minds, whose euergies operate rnnlx, in elevated oil deficient in that spirit of intrigue which is fertile in resources and d'xterous com. binations. The good genius of suco minds is chance; they do not seek they encounter. Well, at nightfall stole back to my lodgings, at the very moment when my immediate ne;ghbor "a water carrier named Bourgeat, a native of Saint Flour-returned from his daily toil. Be- tween him and me there existed the sort of acquaintsncSsdip which naturally springs up between persons who occupy rooms on the same fl DOT, and hear each other rising and going to bed, dressing and undressing, coughing, singing and SO forth; until at length they come to know ones habits, and contract kind of intimacy. From this neighbor now learned that the landlord, to whom owed three qu artets' rent, had given me the kiCk.out, and that l was bound to de camp on the following morning. Bour- geat also, it appeared, had received pre- remptory notice to quit, on account of the nature of his cAlnng. The night passed, after hearing this news, was the wretchedest night of my existence. How was to find any one to remove my but of furniture and my books2 Where vas the money to come from to pay him--if found and the porterI Whither was to be- take myseliI These insoluble questions 1 kept continually repeating to myself like a madman reiterating his monoto. nous refrain. At last 1 fell asleep Pow erty has divine slumber of it's own--iull of delightful dreams. In the morning, while was devouring my porringer ot bread and milk, in walks Bourgeat and says, MT. Student. am a poor fellow, founding from the Foundling hospital d, Chain Flour, fatherless and motherless, and not rich enough to marry. You don seem to be much better of than me for relations or for the stuff they buy pigs with. Nov just listen 10 me. I've got a hand-cart down below that I've been and hired for penny an hour; it'll hol, all our sticks yours as we'll as mine. And seeing as how they've gwen us the sack here, it you've no objection, why shouldn't you and me go and lodge together son.- where else? Alter all, this place isn't exactly the earthly paradise.'
 "'You re right there, my good Bour. geat,' replied. But I'm in terrible fix, must tell you There's a trunk of mine in the porter's keeping, with some seven or eight pounds worth of linen in it, out oi which could pay both the landlord and the porter. Meanwhile ! am almost penniless.'
 "No, mol cried Bourgeat gayly, you must keep your linen. l've got few yellowboys here, and Here the poo, wAter-carisr put his hand in his pocket, and drew forth a gre ,sy old leathern purse. It ended in Bourgeois d,schars- ing my debt to the landlord his xn, and the porter's lien on my linen. Then he loaded the hans-cart with all our belong. ings, and away we started to patrol the | streets, Bourseat dragging the truck, walking by hls side. Wherever we saw the words Apart ments to Let, he h ,lted | while went in to inquire the price; for that was the main point-and alse the main impeachment Atnoon we were still | wandering about the Quarter Latin, without having found anything to su,t us Then Bourgeat suggested breakfast at a | neighboring wine-shop; and in we went, | leaving the hand-cart at the door. twas not until the evening that discovered | couple of attics in house in the Cour R ,han, that faced each other on the same staircase, and were to be let for twelve l and sixpence a quarter each. So my humble friend and were housed at last. | After that we dined together.
 "Now l must tell you that Bourgeat, whose average earnings were about couple of shillings day. had manased to lay by sum of something like LI2 and was nearly in position to realize he dream ot his existence, the possession ot a horse and water-cart of his own. We'll, |