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FAMOUS SONGS
of his rights. If he had acted humanely at once, he might have rescued the outcast and restored him to society.
But to continue this distressing history. Law-son left the shop and did not make his appear-ance again for five days. Then he was in a condition almost as bad as when he first entered it. His vest was gone; his boots were ex-changed for old ones; his hat was shabby in the extreme. His coat (an old one) was buttoned tightly round his collarless neck, and his face was dirty and his chin unshaven. Mr. Turner looked at him. He did not even speak to him. The smell of stale alcohol sufficiently told its own tale. He took half-a-crown from his pocket, handed it to Lawson, and turned on his heel, saying to his manager, " If this man comes here again put him out."
The composer of " Ever of Thee" left the shop and never entered Turner's place again. What became of him none can say, for he was never seen more.
Now this story, which was first printed (as far as I can ascertain) in the " Albany (New-York) Journal," in the winter of 1888, and was afterwards rather extensively copied into the English papers in London and the provinces under various titles—this story, I am informed
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