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    TH $ tfOTABLB . It is not often that the present day exhibits the spectacle of a m ^ are scholar ; that is , a being to whom books are almost the only realities in life , and all things else little other than visions . Joshua Drennan was one of these c dry-as-dustf doctors . He

    had some such conception of the men and women moving in thle world , as they have of evil spirits or angels ; that is , notions which they can neither understand themselves nor make any one * 4 se understand ; the second dilemma a necessary consequence of the first .

    To Dr . Drennan , as he was called , with what claim to the title I know not , * Not rude nor barren were the winding ways Of hoar antiquity , but strewn with flowers / And there many a garland had he gathered , beneath the shade of whfch he sat , a fit emblem of the studies he pursued .

    Nevertheless he was a loveable creature , for he was 6 ne of tfte kindest , gentlest , as well as the simplest of nature's children . A ^ bereavement in early youth had , it was said , unsettled his mind ; which severe study first restored , and then engrossed . : Yet social sympathy , that inextinguishable power , at times

    prevailed . If in his lonely wanderings the voice or laughter pf children reached his ear , he would pause and drink in the sound , as he did breathings from a bed of flowers ; while a smile brightened his deep-seated eyes and played upon his pale quiet lip , as if sonie of the sunshine of his own mother-time came back upon his heart .

    But if , instead of sounds of gladness , he chanced to hear the yosal of sorrow from any living thing , —the bleat of a stray lamb , the cry of a distressed dog , let alone the tone of suffering from any human tongue , —the instinctive spirit of pity spake within him , and n <> matter what the obstacles which might lie between him and the

    appealing creature , to that creature he would make his way , In this manner he had gained one of the most faithful of' his household friends , Sancho , a fine Newfoundland dog , wti 0 bad survived the snow wreath which had buried his first master . A stranger had perished near the village church-yard , and after some fruitless attempts to discover who he was , had been buried there .

    Sancho , whose name was inscribed on a brass collar about his neck , was the onl y mourner at that chance funeral ; when it was over , he remained at the grave to watch and wail over it as if he thought thereby to awaken his buried friend . Dr . Drennan discovered the dog ; drew him home , but came back with him the next day to the grave , and then took him home again ; he did this for many days , saying , as he patted the dog * £ head , ' I will give him a tear , too , Sancho , since he was so kind to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/1/