A Pathetic Endorsement.

Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1121, 7 December 1883, Page 2

A Pathetic Endorsement.

' * . „: >._ 7 y TStrangely endorsed notes . h^ve, from time to time, found their ", way back to the Bank of England.. ' ,Aa American journalist professes to have seen a number of such curiositiesin the possession of a gentleman who who had been m the service of the Bank for many years. On the back of a ten«pound note, issued m 1809, was written: — ..... " Ah; who tell, with pleat account, i The ebbing of the glass; „,.,. When all its sands are diamond spark*. That glitter as they pass P- • ' * ! A And this is the last— this poor rag ! It gHttered for an instant, arid 'then --Hush, my soul ! Begone thou vain regret ! I have sowed and 5 I must reap !" On a five«pound note was inscribed : " Good-bye, thou. tantalising child of the! Threadiieedle Dame ! Thou payest the first debt I have honestly paid for a year— a debt for a fewluxuries furnished to miserable Me m prison ! ' Go, tel/ to the world that though hand join m 'hand, the transgressor .shall not, go unpunished." . On the ndterH&as written : " Did the world ,evpr "know a man to be blessed m the inheritance fcf a princely, fortune, T I wonder ? This ten-pound note is the last of thousands. of the/Sag&e de nomination left me by, aether ivho. had slaved all his/life to win the. store. G-o, miserable remnant, and: with this parting I begin,' the worlct &m I , <*«£ g^e me strength to. help myself. •'' ,H>; J'^w* al/ „;,,>