What Will He Do With It, Book 3.

es the pleasing part of friend to the enlighten

rter, who, having left the bundle in the drawing-roo

hich was writ the golden maxim, "Take things asy." "I beg your pardon,

nd long life t

Mr. Hartopp

Sure and it is the Mayor as ha

and drew forth a grateful tale. Four summers ago Mike had resigned the "fi

wn country, which at that time gave little employment to the surplus of its agrarian population beyond an occasional shot at a parson,-an employment, though animated, not lucrative, he exercised Mike's returning strength upon a few light jobs in his warehouse; and finally, Mike m

striking his staff upon the floor; "I covet his acquaintan

would see him at once. Sure, did not the Mayor know that time

e hall door; you shall take

our of a sheet of note- paper. The landlady seated

itutes which are so distinguished a feature of this enlightened age, and Mr. Mayor's well-known zeal in the promotion of those invaluable societies, must be Mr. Chapman's excuse for the libert

ens He

forth, the Comedian said, with his happiest combination of suavity and loftiness, "And should the Mayor ask you what sort of person I am,-for I have not the honour to be known to him, and there are so many adventurers about, that he might reasonably expect me

is munificent stranger. A gentleman, indeed! Mike should think so! If Mike's good word with

nd stopped before a stationer's shop, at the w

ENIEUM AND LIT

ON CON

FESSOR

esearches in

y of L

ifted his hat,-"Permit me, si

t week. We allow the bills of previous proceedings at our Athenaeum to be exposed

research, and on which a learned man may say much without fear of

exactly, sir

brances of your fellow-townsmen, possibly the lecturer

ve audience, sir, and

(the genteelest seminar

le to the young ladies.

Mechanics'

change the word 'Mechanics' into the word 'Literary.' Gatesboro' is not a manufacturing town, and the mechanics here do

uniary return. Few of these societies, I am told, are really self-supporting: I suppose Professor Long i

. The funds of the society could ill afford such outlay; but we have a most worthy mayor, who, assi

man himself,

s. This is Professor Long's great work upon limpets, two vols. post octavo. The Mayor has ju

gations upon the political and social history of man. But," added the Comedian, shaking his head mournfully, "the human species is not testaceous; and what the history

eceding stranger, and mechanically resumed the task of cutting those leaves, which, had the

t; "Mr. Mayor sends his love-bother-o'-me-his

roughly flogged, Jos. Hartopp was soothingly patted on the head, and told not to be cast down, but try again. The same even-handed justice returned the sugared chalice to his lips in his apprenticeship to an austere leather-seller, who, not bearing the thought to lose sight of so mild a face, raised him into partnership, and ultimately made him his son-in-law and residuary legatee. Then Mr. Hartopp yielded to the advice of friends who desired his exaltation, and from a leather-seller became a tanner. Hides themselves softened their asperity to that gentle dealer, and melted into golden fleeces. He became rich enough to hire a farm for health and recreation. He knew little of husbandry, but he won the heart of a bailiff who might have reared a turnip from a deal table. Gradually the farm became his fee-simple, and the farmhouse expanded into a villa. Wealth and honours flowed in from a brimm

when in such a department the man's name supersedes the woman's, can more be said in proof of the tenderness he excites? In short, Jos. Hartopp was a notable instance of a truth not commonly recognized; namely, that affection is power, and that, if you do make it thoroughly and unequivocally clear that you love your nei

t, you say, in literary institute

ied my thoughts as representing the readiest means

a great thing to bring class

.-"For lauda

cultivate their

.-"To warm t

o give them use

"And pleasurab

In a word, to

IAN.-"And

the Mayor

evolence; and accordingly his foreman, hearing that he was closeted with a stranger, took alarm, and entered on pretence of asking

erally supposed, divined the kindly intentions of his assistant. "A gentleman interested in the Gatesb

amuse, Mr.

Professor Long on

lf am not a man of science, and therefore his l

still more dry to you

have to secure the Gatesboro' mechanics, when anything

e Mayor, compassionately; "but they wish to improv

"it will be long before they take ou

as a novel, would not they a

Mr. Williams. "But our object is

ll-fish, and, by showing what kindness can do towards developing intellect and

laughed griml

t I should p

l-fish!" cri

reature of nobler

of its species. I should lead the audience on to listen to comparisons with other members of the great family which once associated with Adam. I should lay the foundation for an instructive course

l," said Mr

at the Athenaeum, at present, is rather a tax u

Williams looked towards his master with unsp

supporting," said the Comedian, "and in

that is the right principle.

w to make these socie

very much ob

ms." Mr. Williams nudged the Mayor, and coughed, th

. I am not a profession

looked charme

it will be, I will leave it to you, gentlemen, to continue my und

said the Mayor. "But you said a dog,

ee can suspend if necessary. But would not the int

have smiled, but he was afraid of doing so lest he might hurt

tual body," said the latt

I presume," ob

he introduction of other quadrupeds. We might thus descend even

aid the Mayo

ould be sure that I am not trifling with what I consider a very grave and important subject. As to suggesting anything derogatory to t

t sentence, save by a s

ed reverentially, and

ry Institute of Athens. At the colleges in Egypt lectures were delivered on a dog called Anubis, as inferior, I boldly assert, to that dog which I have referred to, as a

s could not

ated; and there was even a philosophical Academy called the Cynic,-that is, Doggish, or Dog-school, of which Diogenes was the most eminent professor. He, you know, went about with a lantern looking for an honest man, and could not find one! Why? B

dents, sir. I think you have made out that part of the case. But, after all, a learned dog is

imparted, whether by dog or man, for the edification of the masses, in order, as Pope expresses himself, 'to raise the genius and to mend the heart'

hat do honour to your head and heart; and if we coul

dian. "Will you do me the honour

ea at my house?" said the Mayor, wit

own home. At my years, Mr. Mayor, one may be excused for taking leave of society and its forms; but you are comparatively young men. I presume o

r a little innocent amusement than for those lectures, which they may be excused for thinking rather dull, since even you fell asleep when Professor Long got into the multilocular shell of the very first class of cephalous mollusca;