The Collegian Author:John Osborne Sargent Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: My leg was very small indeed, the leg I wore in spring, My arm and hand were very lean, my finger just the thing ; I 've had to cast my coat aside, my stockings,... more » and my gloves, And part with all my pantaloons, and part with all my loves. This thought is ever in my mind, and will not thence away, 'T is Daniel Lambert's ghost by night, and Daniel's self by day ! Then take the solemn chorus, and its mournful notes prolong,-— I 'm growing fat, I 'm growing fat, the burthen of my scjig ! Since the gentleman's sudden evanishment, I had never been able to discover a trace or vestige of him. But very lately I have had good reason to suspect that he may be identified in the person of Mr. Francis Hock. If this be the case, his late delusion is merely a new version of his old propensity ; a novel play of his very lively imagination. If Mr. Hock is any where in the vicinity, I should be exceedingly gratified by the honor of another interview, or the favor of a private note, indicating where he is to be found. Charles Sherry. CHARITY. By Luke Lockfast. When I announced to the Club, that I had prepared for the second number an essay on Charity, which I would read them, blank grew the visages of my youthful compeers ; and our worshipful editor, unable to contain himself, exclaimed, " Really, my dear Mr. Lockfast, this is too much. We all know, you are privileged to be grave, but as our periodical is not a receptacle for sermons, neither your age nor your apostolic sirname will make one of yours admissible." " Sir," I responded to this querulous interruption, " it is above twenty centuries since sages taught, and it will probably be about twenty years ere you will have learned to judge of nothing by its name. But, Sir, were you right in anticipating from my subject the very esse...« less