The late eminent physician. Professor John Thompson, of Edinburgh, quitted his father's cottage in early manhood, leaving halt' woven a web of cloth on which he had been engaged as a weaver's apprentice. Half a century afterwards, the then wealthy and celebrated gentleman still found his slumbers disturbed by the apparition of hi 3 old loom and the sense of the imperative duty of finishing the never-comnleted web.
President Felton, in his "Familiar Letters from Europe," relates the following incident on the good ship Daniel Webster, in which he was a pas-enger : —Last night we read some passages from "Midsummer Night's Dream" to the captain. When I came to the description of the mermaid riding upon the dojphin's back, he pronounced it a humbug. "The dolphin's back/' said he, "is as sharp as a razar, and no mermaid could possibly ride on the beast unless she first saddled him.''
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 940, 10 February 1871, Page 2
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