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I shall never forget poor White . He was the junior classical master at Dr R * s when I was a school-boy , and we
honoured him with the soubriquet of " Sheep-dog . " Undoubtedly the originator of this nick-name was an individual of no ordinary intelligence . " The sheep-dog I" How striking is the application pf the term ; he who applied it was certainly a poet with a fine sense of metaphorical fitness * Now exists there , in the multitudinous ranks of things animate and inanimate , an object , sentient or insensate , more
fit than this as the type symbolical of an usher ? " The sheepdog ! " How finely it expresses the whipper-in to a pack of school-boys . The master is the shepherd , the usher the sheep-dog , and the congregation of school-boys is the flock . I am not sure that this most poetical of nick-names did not
originate in the bearer of it himself . I have a dim , flickering ; notion that the title was self-assumed . At all events popr White acknowledged the fitness of its application ; and , as though he were impressed with an idea that the common duties of his calling did not sufficiently assimilate him to the guardian animal whose name he bore , he would at times , for he was of
a playful disposition , assume the nature as well as the office of his canine prototype , running and barking after his flock as though in verity he had once been a sheep-dog , and that the metempsychosis had been imperfectly accomplished . I tlimk that the fine qualities of his mind , delighting , like Mr Square ' s , in u the fitness of things , " caused him to rejoice , if not ifi his
soubriquet , in the abstract beauty of its application . If tfoey had called him anything else it would have fretted hida ; but to be called a sheep-dog !—an antelope is more beautiful ^ a ! liojri more noble , a swan more graceful than a sheep-dog ; but to have called him an antelope , a lion , or a swan , would nave BieSn a lucus a non lucendo , a very pointed piece of irony indeed . Tfop Sheepniog is ungainly in person as in manners ; the rpugliest 9 < F its kind ; t > ut this mattered very . littfc to WMte . Htad he been a lawyer , a sailor or an apothecaty , the applica
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« He had worth , Poor fellow !—but a humorist in his way—Alas ! what drove him mad . " Shsllxt .
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, i r A SKETCH FROM LIFE . By the Author of ' Jerningham ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 139, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/13/
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