608 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



twelve before he withdrew from 

 an occupation in which his heart 

 was engaged; this, too, when he 

 had to rise at four the next morn- 

 ing, walk to Cambridge (nearly 

 four miles distant) to his work, 

 and return in the evening. If his 

 constitution had not been un- 

 usually strong, it must have sunk 

 under these extraordinary exer- 

 tions — a fate more frequent than 

 is generally supposed among the 

 industrious poor. But he seems 

 to have })ossessed an unweariable 

 frame of body, as well as an in- 

 vincible spirit. When the build- 

 ing was one story high, and the 

 beams were to be laid on, the 

 carpenter discovered that the tim- 

 ber from the old cottage would 

 not serve for so large a place. 

 This was a severe disappoint- 

 ment : nothing, however, dis- 

 couraged him ; he covered it over 

 with a few loads of liuuiii, and 

 immediately began a small place 

 in the same manner, at the end, 

 working at this with such perse- 

 ■\'ernnce that he got his family in 

 within four montlis after the foun- 

 dations were laid. This great ob- 

 ject lieing accomplished, he went 

 on leisin-ely with the rest as he 

 could save money for what was 

 wanting : after five years he raised 

 the second story, and in ten it 

 was tiled and coated ; tlie inside 

 was not completed when Mr. 

 Plumtre connnunicatcd the story 

 to tlie society, Init there v, as house 

 room for liimself and his family, 

 and anotlier apartment was let 

 for a guinea a year. 



' In this manner,' says th.it 

 gentleman, ' .Joseph Austin, with 

 singular industry and economy, 

 in the course of ten years liuilt 

 himself a house, Avhicli he began 



with only 14s. in his pocket. 

 During that time his wife had 

 four children , and buried as many 

 more. The money which it cost 

 iiim was about .50l., the whole of 

 which was saved from the earn- 

 ings of daily labour. The house 

 and garden occupy about twenty 

 poles of ground ; and the garden 

 is as creditable as the house to 

 the industry and good sense of 

 the oAvner ; one of the fences was 

 made of sweetbriar and roses 

 mixed with woodbine, another of 

 dwarf i)lum-trees, and against 

 the back of the house he had 

 planted a vine, a nectarine, and a 

 peach-tree.' 



r.\R0DY OF A CAMBRIDGE EXA- 

 MINATION PAPER. 



[The following jeu-d' Esprit is 

 written with perfect good- 

 humour, and we have no doubt 

 will excite nothing but corres- 

 ponding good-humour even in 

 the ])ersons against whom it is 

 principally levelled. Every Cam- 

 bridge man, who has vmdergone 

 the ordeal of an examination for 

 an university scholarship, will, 

 we tliink, find amusement in 

 reading this Parody of the usual 

 styleof the Papers of Questions. — 

 Times.'\ 



UTOPIA UNIVERSITY, 



Undbcember 9657- 



1. Give a comparative sketch 

 of the principal English Theatres, 

 with the dates of tiieir erection, 

 and the names of the most emi- 

 nent Candle-snulTers at each. 

 What were the Stage-boxes ? 

 A\'liat wore the Offices of Promp- 

 ter — 



