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FAMOUS SONGS
would you prefer, some warm clothing, or some pipes and tobacco ?' I looked up. It was Marie. I rushed from the table out into the garden at the back, and there I was found, hours after, insensible.
" In my bed there in the workhouse-hospital, I wrote the words of the song you heard me sing to-day. Then I got well, and, sick of the life, I left the place and became night-watch-man at some new buildings they were putting up in Aldersgate Street. While there the melody of my song came to me. I got a scrap of music-paper and jotted it down, and for a time was happy. My old friends often passed me at night, jolly and careless, little dreaming that James Lawson was the poor night-watch-man who answered their indolent questions.
" Often, when all was still, I poured out my soul in this tender song, and after a while the homeless gamins used to come and listen to me. It pleased them, and perhaps made them for-get their misery. To me it brought back the memory of a dead love and ruined life. But you are tiring of my story—there is little more to tell. I could not endure the solitary medita-tion of my past. I again began to drink—it became a disease with me. I lost my situation, and as a last resource I thought that perhaps 7 97 |
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