Chapter 4

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SHERIDAN.

Bob Mitchell, one of Sheridan's intimate friends, and once in great prosperity, became--like a great many other people, Sheridan's creditor--in fact Sheridan owed Bob nearly three thousand pounds--this circumstance amongst others contributed so very much to reduce Bob's finances, that he was driven to great straits, and in the course of his uncomfortable wanderings he called upon Sheridan; the conversation turned upon his financial difficulties, but not upon the principal cause of them, which was Sheridan's debt; but which of course, as an able tactician, he contrived to keep out of the discussion; at last, Bob, in a sort of agony, exclaimed--"I have not a guinea left, and by heaven I don't know where to get one." Sheridan jumped up, and thrusting a piece of gold into his hand, exclaimed with tears in his eyes--"It never shall be said that Bob Mitchell wanted a guinea while his friend Sheridan had one to give him."--_Sharpe's Magazine_.

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LINES

_On the window of Thorny Down Inn, about seven miles from Blandford, on the Salisbury road_.

Death, reader, pallid death!! with woe or bliss Will shortly be thy lot. Think then, my friend, Ere yet it be too late--what are thy hopes And what thy anxious fears--when the thin veil That keeps thy soul from seeing Israel's GOD Shall drop. (Signed) [Greek: parepidemos]. RURIS.

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When Lord Ellenborough was Lord Chief Justice, a labouring bricklayer was called as a witness; when he came up to be sworn his lordship said to him--

"Really, witness, when you have to appear before this court, it is your bounden duty to be more clean and decent in your appearance."

"Upon my life," said the witness, "if your lordship comes to that, I'm thinking I'm every bit as well dressed as your lordship."

"How do you mean, sir," said his lordship, angrily.

"Why, faith," said the labourer, "_you_ come here in _your_ working clothes and _I'm_ come in _mine_."--_Sharpe's Mag_.

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FRIENDSHIP.

Dr. Johnson most beautifully remarks, that "When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favours unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed, and wish, vainly wish for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood."

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HOT TUESDAY.

Derham, in his _Physico-Theology,_ says, "July 8th, 1707, (called for some time after the _hot Tuesday,_) was so excessively hot and suffocating, by reason there was no wind stirring, that divers persons died, or were in great danger of death, in their harvest work. Particularly one who had formerly been my servant, a healthy, lusty young man, was killed by the heat; and several horses on the road dropped down and died the same day."

P.T.W.

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