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a seditious person—a leveller , a disseftter , a freethinker , an enemy tothe order of things 1 —and who could say that he was noi'ttottialjy an atheist ? Wfetievfcr forgave White for saving his money and his time . He had time enough and money enough to be a better fellow , und as he had neither wife nor children we could not see any il
occasion for his husbandry . But still the sheep-dog / ' disregarding popular opinion , " bore up and steered right onward . " Me was patient under affliction , and in action persevering ; the conscience supporting him throughout all . He seldom complained , he was generally cheerful , and he played with the little
boys at tithes as though he were quite infantine himself . He hid apparently very good health , and he was neither pale nor attenuated from study , and this was mainly because he adopted the plair of taking exercise at the same time that he studied * Up and down the play-ground he would walk rapidly with a book in his hand , committing whole pages of Greek primitives
to memory ; and then , after a time , he would call a little boy to his side and say , " Hear me these ; " then the usher and the pupil wouldchange places , but White seldom missed a word , for he " was endowed with extraordinary powers of memory ,
which seldom or never played him false . The lesson over , the sheep-dog would thrust his book into the capacious pockets of his greet ! plaid robe du matin , and crying out , " Catch me , if you can ! " he would ruh about the play-ground , like mad , shouting and making grimaces as he went , to the no small
diversion of the beholders . At length a whisper ran through the school that poor White was actually mad . I was then one of the elder boys , and I had long ago ceased from tormenting him . Indeed , I had begun by this time to respect him , for I had heard something about a
widowed mother and a maiden sister , supported out of White ' s savings , alid willingly accrediting the truth of this , admiration took the place of scorn in my yOung arid compliant breast , and White became to me a hero . Sbmebody told me that White was mad , and I answered , "No more tiiad than you are . " But I watched him ; and it was very evident that , though not' actually mad , he was strange and flighty at times ; he
looked oddly , he said odd things , and when he was out in the p laying fields , he would drive his squad of little boys before nitn like a floek of sheep , barking all the way as he ran . He had studied too much ; ' arid , although * hfcre was little to appre ? - hend , the boys were not wrbttg in tiaying that he was cracKed , " slightly , very slightly , as I thought . Studious men , in their hours r of recreations ; ate often the most singular ; philosophers jump over chairs and play divers antics to divert themselves , and White was only thus wildly exuberant , when he disporte
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/16/
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