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A Mason's Adventure;
A MASON'S ADVENTURE ;
OR , THE ADVANTAGE IN TRAVELLING OF BEING A FJIEEMASON . I-IIOM Tllli ROAD-HOOK OF 11110 . SI . AUE , CLEltK , ETC . * ' In ev ' ry place a friend , in ev ' ry elimt * a home . "
MASONIC SONG . CONCEIVE being sent off post-haste by the rail-road at five minutes ' warning to take a brother clergyman ' s Sunday duty , one hundred and fifty miles from home , without knowing a single resideiit of the place to which you are going—not an atom of the neighbourhood—and being conveniences of
totally ignorant of the mode or your journey , except that you are to be conveyed by the rail-way train ; of which all that you have read in the newspapers g ives you ideas of broken limbs , running down steep embankments , to the imminent risk of your neck , and the chance of being roasted alive by the train taking fire , or the thousand other accidents—not of " flood and field , "—but of rail-roads and steamcarriages . Such was the occurrence that happened to me a few weeks ago . I had just finished my scholastic labours of the day , and indeed
of the week , and was about to refresh the wearied body with a five o ' clock dinner , when a stranger was announced . I dreamt not that he was a brother parson , until he declared his name and profession , with the object of his visit . He had called to ask me to take his duty on the following Sunday , at his church near Wolverhampton ! When he first mentioned his desire , I was thinking of some twenty miles in the country ; but when he talked of one hundred and fifty—of going off the clockand at Wolver
next morning by the train at eleven o ' — arriving - hampton at six in the evening , I began—being a recluse—to grow nerveless , and for a moment thought myself in a dream . But the business part of the arrangement brought me to my senses , and having obtained the consent of our gentlemanly curate to take my lecture duty , I complied with the stranger ' s wishes , determining to enjoy myself , after a sultry half-year ' s fagging in my humble grammar-school with
the tuition of six-and-twenty boys . Saturday morning came—at eight o ' clock I quitted my snuggery , and , taking leave of my fond wife and her pet niece , as if I were going to India , I committed myself to the hazards of my long journey , pregnant with the consequence of getting to my destination in " whole skin " for the edification of the flock at Wednesfield , whither I had been thus
suddenly commissioned . The mode of conveyance , and the country I was going to , being entirely novel to me , my sensations and impressions may prove diverting . I was struck with amazement at the grandeur and capaciousness of the buildings at the terminus in Euston Square—the activity and bustle , yet perfect order , subordination , and civility of the various officers and porters—and the clock-work regularity with which every arrangement
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A Mason's Adventure;
A MASON'S ADVENTURE ;
OR , THE ADVANTAGE IN TRAVELLING OF BEING A FJIEEMASON . I-IIOM Tllli ROAD-HOOK OF 11110 . SI . AUE , CLEltK , ETC . * ' In ev ' ry place a friend , in ev ' ry elimt * a home . "
MASONIC SONG . CONCEIVE being sent off post-haste by the rail-road at five minutes ' warning to take a brother clergyman ' s Sunday duty , one hundred and fifty miles from home , without knowing a single resideiit of the place to which you are going—not an atom of the neighbourhood—and being conveniences of
totally ignorant of the mode or your journey , except that you are to be conveyed by the rail-way train ; of which all that you have read in the newspapers g ives you ideas of broken limbs , running down steep embankments , to the imminent risk of your neck , and the chance of being roasted alive by the train taking fire , or the thousand other accidents—not of " flood and field , "—but of rail-roads and steamcarriages . Such was the occurrence that happened to me a few weeks ago . I had just finished my scholastic labours of the day , and indeed
of the week , and was about to refresh the wearied body with a five o ' clock dinner , when a stranger was announced . I dreamt not that he was a brother parson , until he declared his name and profession , with the object of his visit . He had called to ask me to take his duty on the following Sunday , at his church near Wolverhampton ! When he first mentioned his desire , I was thinking of some twenty miles in the country ; but when he talked of one hundred and fifty—of going off the clockand at Wolver
next morning by the train at eleven o ' — arriving - hampton at six in the evening , I began—being a recluse—to grow nerveless , and for a moment thought myself in a dream . But the business part of the arrangement brought me to my senses , and having obtained the consent of our gentlemanly curate to take my lecture duty , I complied with the stranger ' s wishes , determining to enjoy myself , after a sultry half-year ' s fagging in my humble grammar-school with
the tuition of six-and-twenty boys . Saturday morning came—at eight o ' clock I quitted my snuggery , and , taking leave of my fond wife and her pet niece , as if I were going to India , I committed myself to the hazards of my long journey , pregnant with the consequence of getting to my destination in " whole skin " for the edification of the flock at Wednesfield , whither I had been thus
suddenly commissioned . The mode of conveyance , and the country I was going to , being entirely novel to me , my sensations and impressions may prove diverting . I was struck with amazement at the grandeur and capaciousness of the buildings at the terminus in Euston Square—the activity and bustle , yet perfect order , subordination , and civility of the various officers and porters—and the clock-work regularity with which every arrangement