22 OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S uim AND TIBUES. im
1744, shown, as a supposed expected guest, into the comforts
iTIe. parlour of the squire. Those wore days when Irish :
keepers and Irish squires more nearly approximated I
now; and Mr. Featherston, unlike the excellent but
plosive Mr. Hardcastle, is said to have seen tlio mistake
humoured it. Oliver had a supper which gave Mm so »)
satisfaction, that he ordered a bottle of wine to follow ;
the attentive landlord was not only forced to drink 1
him, hut, with a like familiar condescension, the wife* :
pretty daughter were invited to the supper-room, Gohij
"bed, he stopped to give special instructions for a hot citki
breakfast; and it was not till he had dfopfttehed this I*n
meal, and was looking at his guinea with pathetic aspec!
farewell, that the truth was told him by the good-nutn
squire.* The late Sir Thomas Foatherston, grandson to:.
supposed inn-keeper, had faith in the adventure ; and 1
Mr. Graham that as his grandfather and Charles Golctetif
had been college acquaintance, it might the bettor
accounted for/!'
It is certainly, if true, the earliest known instancm of
disposition to swagger with a grand air which afterww
displayed itself in other forms, and strutted about in eU»fi
rather noted for fineness than fitness,
* Pwey Mtiiwh', fi, 1, ,
•t "The story,", said Mr, Graham, at n imlilto meuting itt Wftllyuittli'U* |
monument to the Poet (reported in tho (knt. May. for 1HSO, xo. Ua»)» '!
•" confirmed to me by the late Sir Thoma» PotvthorHtrm, Bw'i, a nhnrt tirup N
"his death."