The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-26

features of Lady MaiKinshaw. his grandmother.
his family turns him out of doors.
I have reason to believe that my
exodus from home was. on the whole,
favorably viewed by my mother, as
tending to remove any possibility of my
| bad character and conduct interfering
/ with my sisters advancement in life.
BY dint of angling with great dex-
terity and patience, under the direc-
tion of both her parents, my hand
some sister Annabella had succeed
ed in catching an eligible husband,
in the shape of a wien, miserly,
mahogany-colored man turned fifty,
who had made a fortune in the
West Indies. His name was Bat
terbury; he had been dried up under a
tropical sun, so as to look as If lie
would keep for ages; he had two sub
jects of conversation, the yellow fever
and the advantage of walking exercise;
and he was barbarian enough to take
a violent dislike to me. He had proved
a very delicate fish to hook; and, even
when Annabella had caught him, my
father and mother had great difficulty
in landing him-principally, they were
good enough to say in consequence of
my presence on the scene. Hence the
decided advantage of my removal from
home. 1t is a very pleasant reflection
to me, now, to remember how disinter-
estedly 1 studied the good of my family
in those early days.
Abandoned entirely to my own re-
sources, I naturally returend to the bust
ness of caricaturing with renewed
ardor.
About this time Thersites Junior
really began to make something like q
reputation, and to walk abroad habit
ually with a bank-note comfortably
lodged among the other papers in his
pocketbook. For a year I lived a gay
and glorious life in some of the frees
society in London; at the end of thai
time, my tradesfnen, without any pro
vocation IN my part, sent in their bills
1 found myself in the very absurd posi-
ton of having no money to pay them
and told them all so with the franknes
which is one of the best sides of m
character. They received my advance
toward a better understanding wit
brutal incivility, and treated me 500
afterward with a want of confidenc
which may forgive, but can never for
get. One day, a dirty stranger touchel
: me on the shoulder, and showed me
? dirty Slip of paper which I at first pre-
sumed to be his card. Before l coul,
tell him what a vulgar document
l looked like, two more dirty stranger
put me into a hackney coach. Befor
[ l could prove to them that this pro
2 ceeding was a gross Infringement on th
liberties of the British subject, l foun-
myself lodged within the walls of
) prison.
l Well! and what of that? Who am
that l should object to being in prison
when so many of the royal parsonage
and illustrious characters of histor
, have been there before me? Can l no
carry on my vocation in greater com
fort here than 1 could in my father
house? Have l any anxieties outsid
these walls? No; for my beloved siste
is married-the family net has lande
Mr.. B~atterbury at last. No; for 1 rea
in the paper the other day, that Docto
Softly doubtless through the interest q
= Lady Malkinshaw) has been %appointe
: the ng's-barber-surgeon
sulting physician. My relatives ar
comfortable in their sphere-let me pro
: coed forthwith to make myself comfort
: able in mine.
If the reader desires to make &C
q%uaintance with the associates of m
captivity, 1 must refer him to Scene
of Modern Prison Life" by Thersite
D Junior, now doubtless extremely scare,
|. but %producible to the demands of pa
: thence and perseverance. L should imag
inc, if anybody will be so obliging as t
I pass a week or so over the catalogue c
= the British Museum. My fertile penc
has delineated the characters l me
with, at that period of life, with a fore
and distinetness which my pen canno
hope to rival.