HOOK THE SECOND.

CHAPTER I

B1YIEWING FOE ME, AND UBS, GRIFFITHS,

170.

THE mpfuiH of existence, long Bought, saomod thus to bo t7fi7,
found, when, in hin twenty-ninth your, Oliver UoldHmith wit X,i,W
clown to the precarious tank-work of Author by Profes-wion,
lit* luul exerted no control over tho eiiv.uniHtaneeH in which
he took up tho pun,: nor luul tiny friendly external aid, in,
an hnpulnn of kindness, offered it to bin hand. To ho
swftthlhul, rocked, niui dandhul into authorship in the lot of
more fortunate men: it wa§ witli GohlBmith tho Htern and
last resource of IHB struggle with adversity. As in tho
country-ham ho would have played Scrub or Ilicliard; ns h«
pwBcrihud for tho poorer titan himsolf at Bankwidts until
than their muH'HMttwM drove him to herd with the
in Axe LHIH>; JIH in HaliHhury C'tmrt ho corrected
the pt'eHK among Mr. Uiehardm>n'H workmen, on Tower Hill
doled out phywif. over Mr. .laeiih'H eottnter, and at Puckham
diHpenHed the tuore, itimHeiiting done to young gentlemen
of I'Hit-tor M liner's aeadtany : he hud here cntorcd into
Mr. thTiliths'w Hrrviee, und put on the livery of the Monthly

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