1 54 SAMUEL WHEELEK. 



come and favoured guests ; while the raci- 

 ness of his conversation, interlarded with apt 

 quotations from some of the most humorous 

 characters depicted by our immortal bard, 

 would excite the risible muscles of my bro- 

 ther whip as well as myself for he had an 

 intellectual capacity, and a classic taste for 

 the enjoyment of such things. Without in- 

 dulging in any excess, such treats, not to be 

 witnessed elsewhere in the town, would 

 keep us to a very late hour. 



I cannot give the reader a better 

 idea of the estimation in which I 

 held this singular character, than by 

 transcribing a little effusion I attached 

 to his obituary, in a paper whose columns 

 were always open to my pen. After reca- 

 pitulating his oddities, "Farewell, Sam,"* I 

 wrote "many an hour not unintellectual 

 not to be regretted not to be forgotten 

 have we spent together ; and as the tear 

 with which Sterne's recording angel blotted 

 * Samuel Wtteeler. 



