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no chance of obtaining private pupils, he vainly 

 looked for any other source of maintenance. In a 

 few words, he thus touchingly records the tale of 

 his suffering, and the first beam of hope that shone 

 across his path. As Petronius says, poverty is the 

 attendant of a good mind ; and Linnaeus was not 

 without it in this university, . . . he was obliged 

 to trust to chance for a meal, and in the article of 

 dress was reduced to such shifts that he was 

 obliged, when his shoes required mending, to patch 

 them with folded paper instead of sending them 

 to the cobbler. 



Years afterwards, the most distinguished zoologist 

 France ever produced, M. de Lamarck, stated to a 

 friend, " I was poor, indeed, but I had not, like 

 Linnaeus, to gather up my fellow-students' old 

 shoes to wear." 



He repented of his journey to Upsala, and of 

 his departure from the roof of Stobaeus ; but to 

 return to Lund was a tiresome and expensive 

 undertaking. Stobaeus, too, had taken it very ill, 

 that a pupil whom he loved so sincerely had left 

 that University without consulting him. 



At this time Linnaeus, in spite of his great 

 industry and simple manner of living, naturally 

 had considerable anxieties about his success in life. 



It chanced one day, in the autumn of the year 

 1728, whilst Linnaeus was very intently examining 

 some plants in the academical garden, there entered 

 a venerable old clergyman, who asked him what 

 he was about, whether he was acquainted with 



