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During the years that he thus spent preparing 

 himself for his collegiate course, he was distinguished 

 for the same tender and exemplary piety that char- 

 acterized him when under the watchful care of his 

 good mother ; and so remarkable was his demeanour, 

 that his companions styled him the ^little Bishop.'' 

 Little thought they that the day would come when 

 the title of his boyhood would be the distinction of 

 his manhood. The qualities of his heart so endeared 

 him to all his schoolmates, that his power of doing 

 good among them was almost unbounded, and he 

 used it to the utmost, exhorting to virtue and 

 reproving vice. His charity, even thus early in life, 

 was ever in search of objects, and whenever his 

 parents furnished him with pocket money, it was not 

 hoarded up, nor spent in youthful indulgences, but 

 distributed to the last farthing among the suffering 

 and the needy poor. He realized often how sweet 

 it is to give alms for God's sake. 



About the time that his preparations to enter 

 the college of Maynooth were completed, the Rev, 

 Mr. McAuley, brother of Count McAuley, of 

 Frankford, Kings Co., returned to Ireland from the 

 United States. This gentleman spent much of his 

 time at the house of the father of young Quarter; 

 and often, as he spoke of the condition of the Catholic 

 missions in America; — of the thousands of Catholic 

 children, that were growing up far away from the 

 teachers of their holy faith, and in a land where 

 Mammon was the worshipped deity — of the wander- 

 ing away from the one sheepfold of so many that 



