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SKETCHES AND SCRAPS.

BY Y. S.

LEICESTER:

J. AND T. SPENCER, MARKET PLACE.

LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.

1854.

270. C. 295.

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Thomas Rossell Potter, Esq.

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE, THE HISTORIAN OF CHARNWOOD FOREST, MY EARLIEST AND MOST LENIENT CRITIC, THESE TRIFLES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, AS A MARK OF THE HIGHEST ESTEEM AND RESPECT, BY ONE, WHO, FOR THE MOST PART, DREADS MORE THE CRITICISMS OF HIS FRIENDS

THAN THOSE OF HIS ENEMIES.

LEICESTER,

31ST AUGUST, 1854.

Y. S.

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SKETCHES OF CHARACTER.

THE OLD-FASHIONED YOUNG MAN.

The old, old fashion."-Dombey.

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OLD fashioned-'tis a curious sound, but a deep and pleasant one: there's something solemn, but yet mild about it, that chains fast all our hearts. We like to hear of olden things, and things which call back old remembrances; but yet it seems an anomaly to call a young man old-fashioned, though such ones are, and are, too, very often found. We notice in this world—or, at least, may if we will look --between the young and old a great and noticeable difference. an old man to tell you of his happiest time, and he will say that years gone by were the times of joy and happiness to him, and that the present is but a scene of trouble and of care; he'll say the sun shines now not half so brightly as it was wont to do in his young days; the winters now are not half such winters as fifty years ago; he'll even say the coal burnt twice as brightly then as it does now--and many more like fancies; for his eyes are dimmed with years; the novelty has now worn off, and he has cloyed even of all bright and glorious things; but it is a pleasure -almost his only one-to call back to his memory those

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