| Show A remarkable LAO LAD A gd story sty of C th theau its taj boy post litre here is 1 the md aid story of ft a able boar bo who ws was i a famous poet at the time be he wae was it years 7 old and who did died of disappointment when he wa was 18 lie ile als thoma chatterton born at bristol england in 1752 few now probably know much about him but yeara years ago nearly all england waa was tal klaer about him and even to thil this day those who ho study bli lis ork agree that ho how was a ea oft in youth cat for ill all that the boy boy was burled buried la in ft a pan pati peri pemp grave calely became he was wa so young that even his friend friends r to think there wu was amoth log uncanny unmoor bout about him it wn because thomaa thomas chatterton never played quite ulta fair lr with thuie who read hta his work that they refused to give 1 him bin hi due chut tarton WM was born in poverty and it lis short life ill la in poverty but amid it all bla his genius could not be when 8 year years oil all he was placed in a charity chool school when it 11 be wu was a contributor tri butor to the papers and begin to deceive the th public with his hi product production lons starne d mm m m were amazed to aud cems written in unmistakable trie style alleged to have hv been discovered among vis record records and manuscripts at bristol no ova on doubted that these laere ere works of yean before and they were to a euch such later when hen it vai was discovered that a boy of 16 had written them there was wa general amazement when he was va 18 chatterton vent went to brandon and aside id from louir avowed writings he wrote numerous poem poems in the fifteenth century etyle rie that deceived ad all who read them mur paper papers accepted thee these but refused refuted to pay the young poet more than thin a few fe cente cents for then them thomas toa toil wa w in the lowest depala a pov erty lie its refused to a for aid and in to 1770 three ironto after he n had bad rone gotta to london be locked himself in his attic room drink poison and died ile II 11 WM was burled buried as a pauper and now the th devote many col cot umbato thia this boy who ho la Is recognized aa na one oo 00 of the most rno t remarkable pou en hal ha has ever had Cb chicago leago record |
