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OA ESNIPS

‘A FOOL'S STORY.

BY GeORGE HALSE,

‘ama fool, Despi.e the certainty that, in, laying claim to this or any other distinction, I shell provoke the vehement hostility of every one who has achieved pre-eminence, |

my pretensions boldly; because | feel sure that, by the time the most prejudiced reader | bas closed the pages alloted to me, be will frankly and generously exclaim, ‘Well | yes, I grant it: you are a fool indeét!”

| And I may go so far as to aver that I | was born a fool, Nature endowed me with ‘all the necessary qualifications, and the | fondest of parents developed those powers to [the u’most, by idolizing aud—as the phrase |is—‘ spoiling’ me The first act of folly { was thiee weeksold, Inarash, unguard- ed moment, [ annihilated a bright future of assured fortune. which my parents had con- jirived fir me, They had secured the good | offices of a gentleman as go¢papa, who was | known to have boundless possessions some- | where ‘in the Kast.’ I employed inverted jcommas here, because that hypothetical | phrase embodies all Lknow, It may have referred to the Kast Indies, the fabulons land uf fortuse; or the East-end of London, the real jend of wretchedness. I will, how- ever, assume it was the former, as the latter would look out of place in these |‘ Leaves * _ My sponsor, then a—bachelor }of advanced life, and with gout sll over | him—had, to the certain knowledge of my foud parents, conceived the laudibie idea of making we his heir; when one day, as my | mother held me proudly under bis wose, with a View to rivet his affections, and he, as ia courtesy bound, leancd over me for a mic- ment, 1 seized his whiskers with the unre- |fleciing energy and enthusiasm of infancy, {and tore out a band‘ul by the roots,

That | fatal indiscretion alienated from me his love )aud—whut was of far more importance— | his boundless possessions. On the day “vo! \my baptism, he sent mea Britannia metal | spoon, aud never cailed again.

I had ceached my fif:eenth ycar, when a cond vista of fortuse opened before me, A learned maa in b'uo spectac'es, mating me in the sircet, was so struok with my |had that be eceompanied me home, ‘and |introduced himself to my parenta. Tle was |Dr Mawle, Professor of Phrenology; and }my bumps threw bim into tragsports [I | May mention parenthetically,that two-' birds

| heele.]

|ject tor iilu tration, aud proposed to take |meé as @ pupil.

| Here was a glorious career for my parents’ idarling! But again were their hopes in | itbeic Uriah scattered to the winds, Oa the ' professor calling upon us a second time, | |gave his ha d—-which wae rheumatic, and jevery joint in it decorated with chalk stones | —so vehement a grip, that be roared io |agony, and at once conceived such a horror | for me that he refused to have any further dealing with one whose bumps of com bative- ,ness and destructivences were deve oped to 80 appall.ng a degree.

| Ove day 1 chanced to overhear a con- | versation between my fond paren's, ia which }my name was mentioned; and I learned | something greatly to my advantage.

| ‘I very much fear,’ said my father to /my mcther, *taat all oue bopes in our dar-

Q| ling Uriah are doomed to disappointment.

, He will s.on be a man; and, you see, he has mad@ uo stir in ‘the world ye: !” | ‘Have patience with the lad,’ responded \my dear mother; ‘{f am sure there is a | good deal in that heed of his,’

‘Undouxediy, there is a good deal,’ replied my father with a sigh; ‘but, if Squilis the apotheea~y, is to be believed, it isu’t brains, but—-’

‘Bat what?’ anxiously demanded my mother.

‘Water! And so, after all, our darling Uriah is a— a—half a fool!’

ibe sobs of both my parents alone’ broke the silence which followed this short “dia- logue.

I staggered to my room, overwhelmed — it may have been with water ou the brain— aud totaliy unable to keep an appointment

_| L had made, with a view to intreduce’a new

varity ia my bumps, by an encounter with a coa)heaver.

I pondered for many days and” nights upon’ the comforting news that had reached me; and the ultimate result of my cogita- tions was, that it was uoeless for. me to eQ- deavor to develop good bumps—in defiance of parents, phr ists, and apothecaries; 9 I had better yield“to “nature and be—a tool,

I possessed extraordinary bodily activity and strength, and at once gave such mind. as I possesséd to the study of the drol! athletics of the pantomim:sts, I delighted in the -physieal contortions and socia’ vagaries of the Obristmas clowa. It was c'ear that my-forte lay in this direetion; that I had at last discovered the right field, In the privacy of my chamber I studied the arts of Grimaldi. By dint of gicat physi- eal suffering, I succeeded in stretching my mouth from ear to ear... 1 learnt to squiat borcibly.. I seemed to have joinis ali over

canes. I leapteand tumbled likc a monkey, L could rise fromthe ground without bend- ing ty back, and do hundred other ex- traordinary things. I had serious thoughts of sawing @ policeman io two, jumping through the window, and stirring my honor- ed father witha red bot poker; but felt unwilling to divulge to my parents those new-born powers—which even the learned phrenologist had failed to discover—and wnake known to them that, by dint of their! excellent ‘tra‘ning and my own private’ studies, [ had indecd becowe a consummate

me—I could twist my limbs together like |

I felt a glow of pride in finding that I. who. My disgrace was crushing. I was at

had hitherto been nobody,,

was all at once once banished from the stage; somebody ; and, in my enthusiasm, [ made my popularity, should have been bavished

and, but for

my favorite grimace, turned a somersaalt from the circus too.

plied—

‘ Vm a born fool, sir!’ That little eccentricity of mine was a

veritable inepiration,

presided,

My debut was the eventof the evening or cro up io the wron —-I might also say of the season, | ee iuan :

1 hope the reader will acquit me of ex-| over an applestall, posed myself alla Grim- cessive egotism, if 1 begin by stating that } | a!di, and, with unblushing effrontery, re- my fall, » Dhe waters never

2H immortal nesa, They elicited no repty, | and eujoy an indisputable title to the par-| Widd comb caw at a glance what a treasure fell lower and lower. th

ticular dignity which I affect, still I state | he had picked up and engaged me, then and there, to figure tu the arena over which he

From that untoward catastrophe dated : ~iocbid eating in fact, my head seemed to swell with the mental suffering I endured, I wrote pas- sionate letters to Araminta, asking forgive- My spirits b@ waters. rose higher, In vain 1 rehearsed vn mots with the immortal Widdicombe in the mor- At night the jokes were forgotten, place.” ‘The

i

I rolled | Ineffable flageliated me as of old; but T

into the middle ofthe circus ‘like a ball,| cut fio capers, If T turbed somersaults, it with a label pasted on to my back bearing | was in the wrong direction, and threw the the word *S:uitus,’ Acut ofthe maestro’s| whole gear into confusion, If I picked whip brought me to my feet, when I played! Widdicombe’s pockets of bis curling-irons such mad and original pranks, and did! and false.calves, I forgot to exhibit them te such ‘excellent fooling,’ that the house; the audience; so the joke of the thing was was in a soar; and, when the enthusiasm) lost, 4

Was at its highest, | abruptly stopped, and again displaying my label, as a satirical commentary upon the applause of the public made the audience a grave bow; and, turn- ing to the ineffable Widdicomb, I said with

great solemnity—

‘ You see, sir,-how the world greets me. Who would be. wise in this generation #

Yah!?

Which last ejaculation was accompanied | with a grin and a comersau’t that fairly brought Cown the gallery.

The loudest plaudets came from a corver and | naturally glanced in that My drollery deserted me in an instant ; for 1 recognized my parents there Holding their sides, they were laughing uncontrollably, jitile imagining that they were indebted to their Uriah for the improvised merriment: when the steeds were careering and their riders pirouetting, my by-play was neces- sarily suspeuded; and I carelessly wander- ed towards the vorner stall,

‘ Clown,” said my father, beckoning me to him—-* clowa, you have afforded me and my missus the greatest treat we have had Why, what a wlever droll Here’s a ezown for ye! dove, if ye were my own flesh and biood i couldn’t be more pleased with ye! Ha! Ha!’

I drew near and took the eoip, making a grimace that threw my honored parents in- ln the next mo- meat, however, I relaxed my distorted fea- tures, and, brushing the chalk and. ver- million from my face, L whisperved—

* Father! you were right, quite right—I

stall; direction.

seated,

for manya day! thou art!

to renowed couvulsions,

am a fool!

The loud laughter io that corner stall in- of my bumps had been abnormally developed, stantly. gave place to passions.re gobs; and, by coming into couract with boy’s fists and| through my own tears, [ saw my dear He saw in me an invaluable sut-! mother fall into my father’s arms, ing again iuto the arena, more deliriously than ever, | made cart-wheels all round the circus, side by s.de with a golloping horse ; and then, recovering myself, 1 sprang op to bis buck, and was carried iike lightening

from the scene.

Next day my honored father turned me out of the house for disgracing my family.

Thus [ made my deduct.

‘Ihe manager doubled my stipend at once ; for he not only found me a capital fool, but a very handy fellow altogether. made a goed ghost; and, at pinch, L.ewen condescended to personate aking. I woe everybody’s admiration as a cut-throat; and [ was once a gentleman, but the character | wasn’t to my taste: I cwo, I did it badly It was 1 who taught Wieland bow to play and Cooper’s Banquo was I cou'd even turn my band to carpeater’s -work; and in this capacity, ow ng to-my great strength I bad plenty to do behind the scene.

At this period of my career, a momentous event ,oceured, I had the presumption The symputhetio reader will, L dare say, neither start with wonder nor ‘frown’ with dieapprotation at this avowal} but he will assuredly laugh me to scorn, ‘whea I tell him that [ fell in love A goddess! alas! and

the devil; studied from me.

i

to fall in» love,

with a goddess,

alas!

Owing to my physical streagth, 1 was selected for the deheate and enviable duty (of supporting im my arms the graceful aod airy form of Astraa, as she sat, poised on a cloud, in a transformation scene, piece was so eminently successful that is ran through three mognths;-~and,. though the beauteous Araminta Spinks only re- clined in my arms for a minute and a hall each night, the ioteryal was quite long enough for my ‘usceiNble heart. to be im- pressed with the transcendent virtues of the lovely nympb. Will my most austere read- er condewn me for my human weakness, whea he remembers that | am a mere foo! ? " to combine private with public interest: _ . id ended by propo- sing to make her Mrs, Urish F.oots,

Ah, me! she received my proposals with

By degrees, I man

disdaiv.

Still, the popular piece running on, might, have overcome her scruples, bad 1 not, with fatuous stupidity, brought my public and private interests to a elimax one evening, by sustaining my precious burden inthe air far beyond the allotted interval of the; transformation, and holding her in my entranced arms for five minutes after the cloud bad dissolved, aud everybody io the scene had been metamorphosed except the goddess, ‘Here was a coup de theatre not contemplated by the dramatist !

The actors were petrified; tho orchestra paralyzed; the audience scandalized.

heeded them pot,

‘Araminta!’ Leried. ‘Oh, my belov Say you'll be

ed, be not inexorable!

mine! Spurn me not thus, bewitching Ara- { know 1 am unworthy; but J will try and deserve you, if you will but I.earo bat a guinea a week, and extras, We might double that sun between us!—nay, struggle not ; strike me not, adored one! Speak but the

minta!

give me. hope!

aud—’

Having acquired the ne-dful proficiency,

‘me, by bringing me in contact with the tutelar genius of As ley’s famous Am bi-| theatre—-the ywmmortal Widdicowbe, . He, like Professor Maw.e, was attracted by the extraordinary seiz: of my head; and, ace costing me ia the street, he enquired what

My eye fell on the mauager at the wings, | scarlet with rage; and on the prompter, 80, to encourage livid with terrer; while, at the same mb [ only waited for av oppo: tunity to turn it ment,.a’ yell of delight rom the * ? te to accouct,; whea foriune for opce favored called the to my senses, and proved that this uoreheatsed episode wae @ by the gallery, at all events.

balistic Jine—:

+ saW at |

The inevitable consequences ensued,

*Floots!’ said the effulgent Widdicombe, after the house had elosed, ‘ what on earth is the matter? You’re not half the fool you were!’

I fairly buret into tears at the erue! speech

* Sir,” T replied, *I own the trath of your allegation; but it is none the Jess un- feeling. I cannot dispute it. Alas! I am no fool sow. My oecupation’s gone, I wish to quit the arena of my triumphs be- fore 1 disgrace myself further.’

A spasm choked my utterance bere.

The <indly gentleman took my hand—

‘Tell me, Fioots, the reason of this change,’

‘Sir,’ I responded, ‘I can’t get over the —transformation.’

‘Ab, yes; that was a very sorry busi- ‘ees, indeed. I fear you had been driuk- ing.

‘I had, sir, deep draughts!’ I would have added, ¢ at the fountain of first love ;” but the words stuck in my throat.

‘A thousand pities that you are going to leave off playing the fogl. Why, what are you going to do for a living?’

‘Sir,’ L replied, ‘1 fear you will say I have fallen low indeed, when [ tell you that [ am going into philosophy.’

* Philosephy!’ echoed the Locomparable, starting, and gating upon me with compas- sion, * Philosophy?’

“*Yes, sir, to this complexion [ must come at last, Philosophy—science.’

‘Is i: possible?’. And the. great man evidently reflected for some moments ae to the import of those two somewbat unfami- liar epithets; and J bave no doubt.he class- ed them with such doubt{ul terms as ‘cord- wainery,’ *drysaltivng” aod the hardware trade. ‘ Philosophy, science—ahem! Is that line a.good one, think you, Urish? Is thesea regular demand for the article?’

* Kor my branch of it—yes, sir.’

‘Ahat And what is your branch ?”

‘Astrology, fortune-telling, sir, *I an- sweréd, proudly, ‘There is a vacancy at Vauxball Gardens, | The hermit there caught a cold last week, which killed him, He would go the entire, and eat night after bight in bis cell without shoes or stockings t have app'ied for the situation, and got it, sir, *Good? replied Mr. Widdicombe; ‘very good. But are you up to philosophy and science ?’

‘I could learn that, or any other trade, in a week,’ [ answered + Besides, I’m going to ask the manager here to give me a few properties—a beard, a wand, a nec- romaticer’s robe. There isu’t much more required, you know beyond the effects; for the world, as I’m told Carlyle says con- sists “ mostly of fuols;” and from wy own f omaney IL kuow that two things move

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as @ philosopher, soothspyer, and astro!o- ger, at a shilling an hour, from six'to ten p.m, daily.

My features, traced all over with the chareoal wrinkles of age, and my snow-

{ White beard—which had originally done

daty for King Lear—made a huge impres- sion Upon the visitors to the Gardens; and soon scared for moe a numerous clientele, ‘most'y fools’ in their teens. By a judi- cious method of procedure, { contrived, in- stead of volunteering information, to elicit

thcory upon what they divulged, and weav-

cautious confessions, I found it the easiest thiog in the world to tell them what had

| happened, was happening, and was about to

happen: forecasting for éverybody precise- ly the very thing which he or she desired. This will account for my success in busi-

ness. : (

The word DELPHI being arranged over the door, in a device of colored iampe, i covelnde my predecessor, for some reason beyoud my comprehension, thas styled bim- self; 80, to save the trouble and expense of altering it, I trad.d under the sathe name, instead of displaying. my patrouymic— Floots, : aim

One showery night, when the Gardcos were deserted, and, in de-pair of patrons, | was upon the point of laying aside diviving- rod end lighting my pipe, Theard a atep upon the gravel-waik leading to my cell —some irrevereut wags called it ‘a sell’ —when, in an instant, | was deep!y absort- ed in the eolation of a profound theorem, watchiag the approazhing Visitor through the corner of my eye, It wes g woman, io sombre attire.. The nearer sbe drew, the more rapt [| was iw etudy; fir L aiways found it desirable to impress ead awe my clients, y the wenker se, who usu- ally like to feel a little frightened.

She appeared loth +o break the gilence; her, [ articulated the ea

in praseoti perfectum

format in avi. These magical words had the desived ef- fect. She etopped at my door,

once the whole dilemma; a vertigo came a-ked timidly,

over- me—no doubt the. waters ‘had burst —i ‘released the indignant a'ways turoed slowly, for Astrma, gud threw myself dowp a trap, ‘beard might get shifed — : I followed. For the firet time in my life, | which was opep to receive. dragoo

their bor

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1 turned my head slowly towards her. 1.

*# Why do you.ask, my child?’ —

it from my patrons; and by constructing a | jard

ing together the stray threads of their in-.

onus, bona, bonum!’ WJ living to get. _*Are you disengaged, Mr, Delphi t? she and knowledge, My te: under

fear that my"

| When : “sib!y jufagte mag get to be orers i Qvurty,

* Beonuse, if you were, 1 wished to speak with ae . wow % * Say rather, you wisk to with me.’ The damsel confessed cotaars She ome I had sively’ poset’ ker ts, . ; “ ae without fear, my daughter,’ I said, * the odor of sanctity pervades this re- cess- 78 * There were also, smells of a very differ- ent character. _ ‘Speak, daughter,” I sontidned, arrang. ing my robe, and posing myself like Jupi- ter Olympus in the extravagenga, . L Venerable, praghes began the lady, ivopressed with my digrity, ‘the fame of your wisdom and skill ommend we. £ 2m iD a griev'gus strait, and @ishéd : calighened there. pi ee ( was always my rele, whens new client addreseed me, to hegio by patiing 16.9. self this question, ‘ Passion or if? 4ad, satisfying myseif on this point J had mangas entirely if oo a, sent visitor was ir— a penetrated her taoe vel ated It was evidently not a q of pelf. A’ tremor in ber voice, and, as I ; blush over so much of ‘her face ag, ould see through the corner of my eye while 1 Was arranging my te tele- scope, by the way, was directed aoa brick wall——settied the point, It was pas siow. ' — “My daughter,’ I replied, with path ‘I already krow arte you er You have a griel.’ She started. ‘True? How .could you kaow that?’ to, ‘Boous, bona, tonum!” 1 muttered, turned over some leaves in a posderous volume before me. [N.B. This book had originally been a butterman’s ledger) *L have not studied this mystic tome in vain,

my cbild,’ therefore, that the

‘And you know, nature of my grief is—#’

By way of answer ¥ drew forth, from un der the table, one of my properties~a car- toon of my heart.

* Your grief lies there, my child! I se- plied with compassion.

* Astonishing!” she ejaculated, * [tdoes, it does!’ . ,

My oil lamp, suspended over ‘head, cast a straight shadow like a bar, across the picture. It caught the lady’s eye in a. moment. i ag gi.

‘ Ab!’ she cried pointing to it, * shaft signify anything ? _* ss :

I hadu’t noticed the phenomenon ; and; if I bad, [ shiuld a it po attention, ° knowing that.the rim of the lamp caused it,

‘Yes, my daughter,’ I answered, with. emotion; ‘we soothsayers often auswer da symbols, You shadow is fraught with sig- nificance!’ rs

* How, Sir? obt how?’

‘Interpreted rightly, it meane that @ barb pierces your heart!” “ia?

* Amazing, appalling truth,” gasped the. maiden, clasping ayn ’ on. ss

The lamp, performing a slight sevolution on its axis, threw two bars .oa the cartoon instead of one. She discernedit. ©

; Two!’ sheaurmured, ~~ ;

was a little oonplaseed, and closed my eyes (0 cogitate on the difficulty ; aul maintaining my composure. ¥ 60} .

‘Unless I greatly err,’ I said, without. looking at the picture, my eyes still closed, ‘there should be two bars acrossthe object.’

— aT Siok ae 0

‘Tis true,’ ied, ‘my daughter ; two barbs rankle ia your guiless heart,’ =

She could only sob... From that cireum- stance [ pergeived 1 had made whit. My lamp-seemed bent on creating perplexities for me, . Making another sligit turn, the salowa impinged upon the cartoon passed

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‘And those two things sre —.’ ‘Gone!’ exclaimed the dameel, ia grout:

* Pasion and pif, sir; the first in early,! surgri ~ = Seen the latter ia later, life.’ i bit my fip, and tornod over a leaf’ or’ The reader perceives that I was already | two of the butterman’s led ger. oT DRyIEO, transformed froma fuol into a philosopher. + OF a truth it is even 80,” answered, In due time, I was installed ia the Grot-| with uoblushing effrontery. The ' to of Wisdom ; and entered upon my duties | po} ao existing aa

one is « revelation of things to be? © > ++ I hado’t the remotest notion as to whither ‘leone : . or Can it bef oh, ean it be, that T aba ever be quit of these pangs? she asked ber-- self, in great agitatio neater ‘ Pangs!’ thought 1; ‘then it isn’s eo affair of the tender ion!’—I was eon- structing a theory of rival lovers—' dere’. a fiz for a soothsayer to be inf? * Daughter, * I gaid—after tua ' eye over an invoice of bacon, bat —'by my aid itis. ble shadow of—of——’—{* Pangs,. pange?

obliterated your ‘ 3 vv 7186 The maides ed my hand. ver bette Ee le te hg eens’ , Pi Aube aneil.’ sbeunid,* Lfeaniaeeanes tax’.

+ Have faith, my childs’) «ort bio ‘1 brill exercised the privilege need ‘Ob, I will! Bat what of =

shaft? It tepresented the paogs of=* “°° I glanced at 6 eee and the viands sugg«sted hunger. pang dida’t, however, sppear &n appr: one. ‘Tis true, ’tis tras’ m1 medi gen time—' Tis true ’sie pity; pity jus, tis

true,, quoting Sha a +Pity! Qb, yes, wy futher; you “tieve divined it alt! ~My pity” for ‘iat over" powers éverythingt* "ee ‘The shafts i the ps is romestt Bat what must ay child?’ : Meu: > me O08 petunee Aod I continued to avail myset of the’ privileges of age. oe The waiden fairly Wept, = | ‘Tell mé more. wna oe w. ma0:* ‘ Past, present, or future?’ I inguized. { * Bach and all,’ a = gpids aS »-f ~ ‘Though J was fully sensible of a ey Serene ‘I was equally alive tomy business.” E bad -