and when you accomplish your education, if you return home this way, I'd
thank you to give me a call. Farewell! God bless you and prosper you as
I wish, and as I am sure you desarve."

He shook the lad by the hand; and as it was probable that his own former
struggles with poverty, when in the pursuit of education, came with all
the power of awakened recollection to his mind, he hastily drew his hand
across his eyes, and returned to resume the brief but harmless authority
of the ferula.

After arriving at the next town, Jemmy found himself once more
prosecuting his journey alone. In proportion as he advanced into a
strange land, his spirits became depressed, and his heart cleaved more
and more to those whom he had left behind him. There is, however, an
enthusiasm in the visions of youth, in the speculations of a young
heart, which frequently overcomes difficulties that a mind taught by
the experience of life would often shrink from encountering. We may all
remember the utter recklessness of danger, with which, in our
youthful days, we crossed floods, or stood upon the brow of yawning
precipices--feats which, in after years, the wealth of kingdoms could
not induce us to perform. Experience, as well as conscience, makes
cowards of us all.

The poor scholar in the course of his journey had the satisfaction
of finding himself an object of kind and hospitable attention to his
countrymen. His satchel of books was literally a passport to their
hearts. For instance, as he wended his solitary way, depressed and
travel-worn, he was frequently accosted by laborers from behind a ditch
on the roadside, and, after giving a brief history of the object he had
in view, brought, if it was dinner-hour, to some farm-house or cabin,