SATURDAY NIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 9, 8 December 1883, Page 2

SATURDAY NIGHT.

THE FIRESIDE. A PATHETIC ENDORSEMENT. Strangely endorsed notes have, from time to time, found their way back to the Bank of England. An American journalist professes to have seen a number'of flttghcuribsTliesin the possession of a gentlemen who had been m the service of the_ Bank for many year?* On the back of a ten-pound note, issued m 1809, was written ;— " Ab, who can tell, with clear account. The ebbing of the glass ; When all its Bands are diamond aparkf That glitter as they pass P " And this is the last— this poor rag? Jt glittered for an instant, and then— Hush, my soul ! Begone, thou vain regret! I have sowed, and I must reap I" On a five-pound note was inscribed : « Good-bye, thou tantalising child of the Threadneedle Dame 1 Thon payest the first debt I have honestlr paid for a year— a debt for a few poor luxuries furnished to miserable Me m priaon ! Go, tell to the world that though hand join m hand, the tran»gressor shall not go unpunished." On the note was written : " Did the world ever know a man to be blessed m the inheritance of princely fortune, I wonder ? This ten-pound note is the last of thousands of the same denomination left me by a father who had Blared all his life to win the stoic. Go, miserable remnant, and with this parting I begin the world anew ! Uod gire me strength to help myself."