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during the entire forty-five years that ho lived at Blewbury . As specimens of industry ancl curious stitching , they were wondrous articles of wearing apparel . The brim of his bat on the loft side was , by dint of constant handling , entirely worn away . Crossing the fields one morning from Compton , he hacl the good fortune to espy an old hat stuck upon a pole in a corn-field to frighten away the birds . The prize was instantly captured ancl disported ; the brim was immediately tore away , ancl joyfully appended to his own hat , sewing it on carefully with a piece of twine . It may be doubted , after all , whether the
addition was an improvement ; for the new brim was a jet black , whilst tho other weather-beaten crown was of a most dingy brown . His coat might be pronounced a miracle of art , from the variety of its colours , ancl the multiplicity of its patches ; there never was a eoat so twisted and turned , so doctored and repaired , so altered in its fashion , or so metamorphosed in its shape , as the coat of the penurious Mr . Jones . Pity that it coulcl not have written its own history ! It woulcl have taught those who wish to make a surtout do double duty how to effect then- purpose . AVhen the miser came first to Blewbury , it was then the worse for wear ; and after somo considerable timewhen it had
, become threadbare ancl of a russet hue , he had it turned inside out , and converted it into a dress-coat . Ei * e long the napless garment became dangerously thin , and subject to incessant rents , which kept the needle of its anxious owneu continually emplo } r ed . His needle it were wrong to call it ; the practice of the thrifty curate was to borrow needle and thread , on these trying occasions , of the neighbouring farmers ; since to have sunk his own capital in the purchase of such articles would have been the height of inexcusable extravagance . But at length , in despite of the most diligent care and curious patching , pieces fell off , ancl were lost . To repair these dilapidations , the vigilant owner cut
fragments off tho tail , ancl sewed them in neatly himself . At last this expedient of robbing one part to repair another became so frequent , and the tails were so clipped and shorn of their original dimensions , that the eoat became a jacket ; ancl so much mirthful comment did this tailless garment excite , old crones used to regard it as the ne plus ultra of ingenious patching ; and mystics spoke of it as a legacy from Bamfylcle Moore Carew , that tho owneiwas reluctantly compelled from wearing it when he appeared professionally before his flock . Public railery could effect this , and no more . The mutilated Benjamin was still carefully cherished , and constantly decorated the owner ' s lank person when at home . "
AVe regret that our space will not permit our following out the racy description of this extraordinary divine . Bro . Neale , after summing it up , adds"His coat , slippers , neckerchief , inkstand , ancl pen , are still in existence . I have seen them . No beggar on tho high road would own them . They are positively wondrous . That they ever should have been worn or owned by a clergyman seems past belief . .... Among his sermons , which bore such palpable testimony to the penuriousness of the writerwas a letter from his
, bankers , Messrs . Child & Co ., dated April 4 , 1801 , in which they acquaint him that they had credited his account with 561 . 10 s ., just received , ancl that the stock then standing in his name rims thus : —2 , 200 / . Consolidated Three per Cents ., annual interest 66 / . ; 1 , 200 / . Consolidated Four per Cents ., annual interest 48 / . He died as he hacl lived , isolated and comfortless . The delusion is now ovor : he is awaiting his final reward . "
In taking leave of Bro . Neale ' s highly interesting ancl instructive book , we would confidentl y commend it to the perusal of our readers . HolmsfirIh ' s solemn Voice . A Sermon jireaehed in St . Bartholomew's Church , Salford , on February 15 th , in behalf of the Hohnsfirth sufferers . By the Rev . MOSES MARGOLIOUTH , B . A . London , AVertheim ancl Macintosh , Paternoster-row . This pious effort on behalf of the sufferers from the recent calamitous event is only one of the many charitable deeds performed by our Reverend Brother , and , apart from that , a discourse pregnant with deep interest . The text is from Luke xiii , 1—5 . In alludiim-
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Literary Notices.
during the entire forty-five years that ho lived at Blewbury . As specimens of industry ancl curious stitching , they were wondrous articles of wearing apparel . The brim of his bat on the loft side was , by dint of constant handling , entirely worn away . Crossing the fields one morning from Compton , he hacl the good fortune to espy an old hat stuck upon a pole in a corn-field to frighten away the birds . The prize was instantly captured ancl disported ; the brim was immediately tore away , ancl joyfully appended to his own hat , sewing it on carefully with a piece of twine . It may be doubted , after all , whether the
addition was an improvement ; for the new brim was a jet black , whilst tho other weather-beaten crown was of a most dingy brown . His coat might be pronounced a miracle of art , from the variety of its colours , ancl the multiplicity of its patches ; there never was a eoat so twisted and turned , so doctored and repaired , so altered in its fashion , or so metamorphosed in its shape , as the coat of the penurious Mr . Jones . Pity that it coulcl not have written its own history ! It woulcl have taught those who wish to make a surtout do double duty how to effect then- purpose . AVhen the miser came first to Blewbury , it was then the worse for wear ; and after somo considerable timewhen it had
, become threadbare ancl of a russet hue , he had it turned inside out , and converted it into a dress-coat . Ei * e long the napless garment became dangerously thin , and subject to incessant rents , which kept the needle of its anxious owneu continually emplo } r ed . His needle it were wrong to call it ; the practice of the thrifty curate was to borrow needle and thread , on these trying occasions , of the neighbouring farmers ; since to have sunk his own capital in the purchase of such articles would have been the height of inexcusable extravagance . But at length , in despite of the most diligent care and curious patching , pieces fell off , ancl were lost . To repair these dilapidations , the vigilant owner cut
fragments off tho tail , ancl sewed them in neatly himself . At last this expedient of robbing one part to repair another became so frequent , and the tails were so clipped and shorn of their original dimensions , that the eoat became a jacket ; ancl so much mirthful comment did this tailless garment excite , old crones used to regard it as the ne plus ultra of ingenious patching ; and mystics spoke of it as a legacy from Bamfylcle Moore Carew , that tho owneiwas reluctantly compelled from wearing it when he appeared professionally before his flock . Public railery could effect this , and no more . The mutilated Benjamin was still carefully cherished , and constantly decorated the owner ' s lank person when at home . "
AVe regret that our space will not permit our following out the racy description of this extraordinary divine . Bro . Neale , after summing it up , adds"His coat , slippers , neckerchief , inkstand , ancl pen , are still in existence . I have seen them . No beggar on tho high road would own them . They are positively wondrous . That they ever should have been worn or owned by a clergyman seems past belief . .... Among his sermons , which bore such palpable testimony to the penuriousness of the writerwas a letter from his
, bankers , Messrs . Child & Co ., dated April 4 , 1801 , in which they acquaint him that they had credited his account with 561 . 10 s ., just received , ancl that the stock then standing in his name rims thus : —2 , 200 / . Consolidated Three per Cents ., annual interest 66 / . ; 1 , 200 / . Consolidated Four per Cents ., annual interest 48 / . He died as he hacl lived , isolated and comfortless . The delusion is now ovor : he is awaiting his final reward . "
In taking leave of Bro . Neale ' s highly interesting ancl instructive book , we would confidentl y commend it to the perusal of our readers . HolmsfirIh ' s solemn Voice . A Sermon jireaehed in St . Bartholomew's Church , Salford , on February 15 th , in behalf of the Hohnsfirth sufferers . By the Rev . MOSES MARGOLIOUTH , B . A . London , AVertheim ancl Macintosh , Paternoster-row . This pious effort on behalf of the sufferers from the recent calamitous event is only one of the many charitable deeds performed by our Reverend Brother , and , apart from that , a discourse pregnant with deep interest . The text is from Luke xiii , 1—5 . In alludiim-