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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 71, 12 April 1901, Page 4

'iNTXIKH m* a[JTHOK3. ir is r« !r\t>.o i- 1 . Vacauiay, th* ( env-rtem histrr.un : ; vd .. •••:. that on c-n? OCc..si:>n Iv.' \\r>n! in ; t h , ic purchase | some ballads !. l .vl:r ... always vr r\ * fond), and, as he wis the purchase, I some children ' aiv i ; of him. Crowding around, ihry said "Tiic j;e'iaian's goin* 1 to sinjr," and tiieiTiipor, followed him into , the street, where, to sav, they were | disapK'ii;i ;d. It is v >A\ known that Macaulay had a very retenti\ e memory, and on eve occasion he is said t.i have modestly asserted ii uv some peciviar freak of fortune, all the copies ot " Paradise Lost" and "Pilgrims should iv* bv.cpt out of existence, he would guaranty to reproduce them alr.i< :.t word for w> rd from memory. He livi d and died a bachelor, and, when asked *Al:y he did not ina-:y, he used to smile and cay lie never had imk; for courting. Dr. john.cn was nr.tably an ugly man, and it is said that Doswell, his personal triiv.d arid biographer, " added five hundred poi-.nus to the .online of one of his babies bec;u!se she was not frishtened at Johnson's ugly face. I'lis great lexicographer was a glutton at the table, seldom speaking much during meat, and scarcely even emitting anything more than a rude growl when spoken to. So It nd was he of his food that, as Macaulay pins it, "he tore his dinner iilce a f.'.mished wolf, with the-.eins swelling or his forehead, and the perspiration running down his cliteks" As a child, indeed, throughout his life, !r; possessed a remarkably retentive memory, and his mother used to relate a story ot his early childhood which sufliciently tesiitjes to this fact. On one occasion, she tells us, being desirous of keeping him quiet for awhile, whilst she did something in the upper rooms, shegaveliim n book and told him to '.earn a certain hymn by heart. She ihm left him, and proceeded upsUirs; but si... had only reached the second (!:■:' ' when "Sammy" came running up after ber, declaring that he had learnt it. He thereupon repeated it straight off, although, ashis mother tells us, he could not have read it through more than once. Sir Walter Scott, whilst at school, was noted for his stupidity in learning; he would " only learn when he thought he would." He was generally to be found at the foot of the rlasz, bat at times he was stirred up by an ambition to figure at the head of his class. On one occasion, inspired by this noble desire, he was led to adopt'by no means noble expedients to attain his end. He had passed up to the second from the head, and there he stayed. The boy who was at the head saw that Walter was trying to take his place, and he, therefore, worked hard and kept his position, so that for days the two boys were battling with each other, but finally Waltf, despairing of passing his fellow by '"air means, determined to pass him by a strategic movement. He soon noticed that this boy, whenever asked 10 answer a question, always started nervously clutching a button rr the bottom of his waistcoat. This was Walter's chance. As soon as he saw the master coming he took his penknife, and quietly, unobserved, cut off the offending button. The master came, put a question to the head boy, and he immediately dropped his hand in search of the faithitispiring button, but finding it gone, h# blushed, stammered, and forgot 'he answer. Tluii \V3Uer Hon the position be sought.

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