Show Streaks of luck We have heard of a man who had 2000 year left him because ha was civil to an infirm old lady in church finding the hymns for her setting her hassock etc He did not know her name but she took good care to ascertain ain his and when she died he loan thus she had bequeathed to him the bulk of her property as a reward for his patient kindness A clergymen clergy-men of our acquaintance obtained a living of good value from a baronet in Norfolk for no other reasn than that he was the only curate within ten miles round who had not applied for it when it fell vacant And another clergyman whom we know got a still better for having refused preferment offered to him under circumstances cir-cumstances derogatory to bis dignity He was a fair singer and a vulgar plutocrat who had invited him to dinner promised to give him a living if f he would sing a comic song at dessert The quiet rebuke which tbe clergyman administered made the plutocrat ashamed of himself so that the next day he proffered toe living with a letter of apology but the Jiving Jiv-ing was ref sed the clergyman stating stat-ing that it would be impossible i for hIm to forget the circumstances under I which ii was first tendered This was the more honorable as the clergyman was very badly off Another patron hearing of what he had done appointed him to a benefioa as a testimony testi-mony of his admiration We may conclude with a story of a man who was suddenly made rich because of his great stupidity He wag the only dull man in a bright wilted family and going to dine with a wealthy relative who had a horror of fools he made so many SiIiy remarks that the old man cried with exasperation II I must do something for you for youll never do anything for yourself If I J dont make > a rich man of you youll become a laughing stock to the world and a disgrace to your family Chambers Journal |