Why Cheese Disagreed with Him.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1471, 3 October 1885, Page 5 (Supplement)

Why Cheese Disagreed with Him.

There has aever been, ;is» far as we know, a more remarkable instance of a tangible and yet a fugitive wealth than of/the fortune that evaded the ; grasp of a friend of the writer/ ' He was many years ag ; > at school at Harrow, and returning along the road by the bathing placn — to, Harrovians, 'duckor'— politely:. -went to the assistance of a stout ? f ar inei^ oii 1 1 o r&eback, m difficulties with a gate lock; ; tte j; opened the 'gate and vhekUiit back for the rider td pass; ■ hiy boy,' said the farmer, one of the wealthy Middlesex graziers who own large tracts of the and Pinner rich meadow iandsV 'What may your name be?'. ;■,• ■ ■ ■■■' •■-,.•■..: ■■•' ' 'My name's Greon,' refcvirned the boy, withianiil-tinaed burst of the , imagination. " > A.nd iwhat is your father ?' • • Oh,< my, ft» the"r\s a cheesemonger,' said the smart scholar, . chuckling. r internally at his reiidy wit ; 'and' he lives m London, m Theobald's "Road, rather a small shopi with two steps down out of the street.' : ; ; <.; ! ; 'I'm yery^miich obliged to you,' the farmer, by uo meuris, as it atVerwards appeared, a man of straw. 'You're a. capital young chap ; I sh an JJL, forget you;' '/'.'■■'. " ' Bon't !' was the j?cholav's; fitfal thrust. '■Remember Green and -as -chefscrapnger m Theobald's Road.' Xnd up th« hill he went, almost as much pleased with himself as if he. had been: asked to;^iftV; against xßion at Lord's'i.-. ; ;o.-v-v;'' : 'fK.'. ; -:.•';'■-:' ;o. '-.!.; :/^'-:^i: #; What his feeling^ i ma^jr ha^ff ? b^eii, when, ten years later^a youiig g|iitleman By the name of Green' was aavertised for, whose father kept a chcesemongfr's shop m the vTheobald road, and who, m return for politely opening a gate at Harrow m the year 183— , was left a large lej^acy hy the wealthy farmer, recently deceased -^-. li^hat;hw^^eelirig>■■were/_thea. v non6^^pf his relative^ Ciired to inqaire top closely i but it was observed by all tliat "from that hour ; the .unhappy young nian never lost an opportunity of insisting on the indalculHble ble«isings of the most rigid adherence to truth;; of , the disasters invariably incident to even 1 a momentary deviation from Which virtue } he^ himself was a ihost marked and melancholy example. For neither was his name Grean nor anythuig apprbachiug- it, nor had his fartheir, a quiet country ever even iii the .remotest fashion, been, interested^ m cbeeso; ; inde&dV a^;his ■ isqn . been^ heai'd pathetically-: to remark, m the smallest "aniounts It -in variably; ;diisagreed with him. - Gornhill Maga^vh^. : ' f