growing poorer every day, he passed a 
year in close study. At the expiration 
of that period he found himself reduced 
to a deplorable state of poverty • all his 
money was expended ; he had no hope 
of a supply from home; nor had he any 
cheering prospect of future support, to 
mitigate the feeling of present misery. 
He found some relief from his distress 
in the kindness of his fellow-students, 
to whose tables he was occasionally in- 
vited. Yet even with the assistance 
of this casual benevolence, it was not 
without difficulty that he procured from 
ay to day the mere necessaries of life. 
Ihe deficiencies of his wardrobe, were 
supplied by the cast-off clothes of his 
more fortunate companions. So great 
was his poverty, that he could not even 
porcnase a pair of shoes, and was com¬ 
pelled to patch those which were given 
by his acquaintance, with pieces of 
card stitched in with thread made from 
