A PATHETIC ENDORSEMENT.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 23, 15 December 1883, Page 4

A PATHETIC ENDORSEMENT.

St namely endorsed notes have, from time to lime, found their way back to the Bank of England. An American journalist professes to have seen a number of such curiosities in the possc'-simi of a gentlemen who had been in the service of the Bank lor many years On the back of a ten-pound note, issued in 18u9, was written ;

‘‘An, who can tell, well clear account, The ebbing of the glass ; When ail its sands are diamond spark?, That glitter as they pass ? And this is the last—this poor rag? it glittered for an instant, and then — tlush, my soul! Begone, thou vain regret! 1 have sowed, and I must reap !” On a live-pound note was inscribed : “Good-bye, thou tantalising child of the Threadnoedle Dame ! Thou payest the first debt I have honestly paid for a year —a debt for a few poor luxuries furnished to miserable .be in piison! Go, tell to the work! that though hand join in hand, the transgressor shall not go unpunished." On the note was written : “ Did the world ever know a man to be blessed in the inheritance of princely fortune, 1 wonder ? This ten-pound note is the last of thousands of the same denomination left me by a father who had slaved all his life to win the stole. Go, miserable remnant, and with this parting I begin the world anew ! God give me strength to help myself."