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life. Give me, however, the lease, that I may put it in my pocket-I will tear the lease, and then-"

"How, your honor, tear my lease instead of renewing it? Has then my freedom, or my happiness offended you?"

"Yes, farmer," replied Adrastus, "I will tear the lease, because you have no further use for it. The little spot of ground you have so long enriched by your care, shall henceforth be a patrimony to your inheritance; you are the proprietor of it from this day; call on me to-morrow morning, and the writings of surrender shall be made. -out for you..

"For the time to come, I must be considered, not as your landlord, but your friend: let me often see you at my table; in short, as. often as the business of your family will perthat wisdom and un

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Let you. me get derstanding, which surpasseth mere mechanical science, in the society of the contented cottager."

The farmer would have dropped upon his

knees, but Adrastus prevented him, saying,

Rise, Mr. Matthews, the obligation is on my side; I have been obliged. In exchange for a few acres, for which I have no occasion, you have given me a set of maxims and sentiments, that are, as the purified thrice refined gold of Ophir, and shall never depart from me.

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From this moment Adrastus and the farmer were intimate friends.

O ye landlords and tenants, go ye and do likewise.

ANECDOTE.

Valentine Tameral Duval, at Vienna, di-rector of the cabinet of medals and coins, to their Imperial Apostolic Majesties, aged 80 years, was born at Artonnal, a village in Champagne, of mean parents, from whom he ran away when very young, and chance brought him to Lorrain, where he kept sheep.

He could scarcely either read or write, yet so great was his desire to become acquainted

with the motions of the heavenly bodies, that he made a tall oak his observatory, but with very little success.

In 1719, he was hired at the hermitage of St. Ann, to take care of six cows, where he employed his wages in buying books and maps, but finding his finances ran rather short, he set traps to catch foxes, weasles, and other animals, which he sold and with the money bought books.

Whilst he tended his cattle, he used to sit under a large tree, and spread his maps on the ground, where he studied with unremitting diligence. One day as he was thus employed, the Princess Leopold and Frances happened to pass that way, and were struck with the answers he made to their questions. He was then twenty-two years of age, and was sent to Luneville, and from thence to Point Morasson, to a college of Jesuits, where he made such progress in learning, that in 1729, he was made professor of the academy of noblesse of Luneville, and librarian to the reigning duke.

In 1739, when Lorrain was ceded to France, M. Duval was sent to Florence as librarian to the then grand duke, and Francis I. having become Emperor, formed a design of making a collection of all the medals and coins, struck throughout the world since the cessation of antique medals, and sent for M. Duval to Vienna, to carry on this project under his own inspection, after which he was appointed director of the cabinet, which place ke filled with great exactness till his death.

ANECDOTE.

King George II. towards the end of his life, became weak-sighted, and could not discern objects unless they were very near him.

Not long before his death, looking out of his palace window at Kensington, in company with a nobleman, he asked who a person was he saw at some distance.

"That is my Lord Bute," answered the nobleman.

"Ay," replied the King, "that

is the man that will govern this kingdom after my death, and ruin it."

Anecdote of His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales.

The Prince, when a boy, playing at shuttlecock with his royal brother, the then Bishop of Osnaburgh, in the riding-house in the Queen's palace. One of their Majesty's footmen, not knowing the two princes were there, hastily threw open the door, juft as the bishop was about to strike the shuttlecock, which occasioned him to miss his aim, and lose the game to his Royal Highness.

The Prince, observing his brother to be rather chagrined at the accident, took up a whip, with which he had been riding, and jocularly switched the man with it; but the Prince observing him to receive the chastisement rather morosely, stepped up and said to his brother, " My affection for you, my dear Frederick, has precipitated me into a wanton act of injustice against this poor

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