The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-31
GOLDSMITH AND AMERICA.
Paid Passage to This Country Although
He Did Not Come.

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He Did Not Come.
Oliver had but lately completed a
rather wild and irregular course OF
study at college, and his kinsfolk had
insisted that he should become a coun-
try parson, as his poor father had been
before him. He felt his unftness for
such a calling, but he cared less for
that than for some of the irksome re-
straints that it would impose. For in
stance, he could not bear the thought
of being obliged to wear long wig
when he preferred a short one, or OF
being always dressed in a black coat
When one Of bright colors suited his
fancy so much better. He had frankly
told his relatives that he preferred
pretty clothes to the hard lot of poor
parson; and yet, as neither he nor they
could think of any other business for
which he was better fitted, he at last
consented to apply for holy orders. But
when the time came for him to go to
the Bishop of Elphin to be ordained, he
could not resist the temptation to wear
PAIR OF beautiful scarlet breeches with
long hose and the brightest buckles.
For would he not become a parson to-
morrow, and be forever after ward con-
demned to sober black? The gocd
bishop was Mortified at such levity, and
refused to ordain him. Perhaps upon
examination he found that the young
man was entirely ignorant of the cate
chism
This failure of divers had been
much less of a disappointment to him
than IN fri IL T,1Fo ho vuo
% years old, and his mother was very
poor, it vas highly necessary that he
should f ID something to do. And so
he had found employment as a pri-
vate tutor in a wealthy family near
Lissoy. From his pupils point Of
view, he was, no doubt, an accomp-
lished and successful teacher. He was
only great boy himself, and life would
have been one long holiday to every
body if he could have had his own way.
But his way did not please his en-
ployer, and finally, after a quarrel for
which Oliver was doubtless to blame, he
was dismissed. The money which he
had earned at tutoring, however, was
sufficient to equip him as a knight err
rant, for it enabled him to buy the
horse and the splendid new suit OF
clothes with which, as I have said, he
rode one fine morning into the city OF
| Cork. To his great satisfaction, he
| found a ship already in port waiting
! only for favorable winds to sail for
America. He lost no time, therefore,
| in selling his horse, and in making a
bargain with the captain for his pas
sage to the New World. Then he sal
lied out to see the town. He had no
difficulty in making friends; for he had
money in his pocket, and he proceeded
to share it with all the beggars and
street loafers that he met. He was
ready to relieve every case of distress
! that came to his notice, and many were
! the boon fellows that he helped to en-
| terrain at the tavern. Several days
were passed in this way, and the ESQ in
! his pocket had dWindled to but little
| more than 80 shillings; and still the
| ship, upon one pretext or another, de-
layed it's sailing. One fine night, how
ever, while Oliver was in the country
enjoying himself with some newly
made acquaintance, a favorable wind
spraNg up, and the captain, entirely
neglectfW of his passenger, ordered the
vessel I'd be cast loose from her moor
ings and the sails to be set for the voy-
age. And in the morning, when Oliver
sauntered leisurely down to the wharf,
he found that he had been left behind.
James Baldwin, in st. Nicholas.