Transcriber's Note:

[ This sentence ] is incomplete, as printed:
Wheelwright, hoping that he was the bearer of agreeable tidings from his estates, threw him all but his last quarter, and Thady took his leave with,

UPS AND DOWNS

IN THE LIFE OF

A DISTRESSED GENTLEMAN.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "TALES AND SKETCHES, SUCH AS THEY ARE."

WILLIAM L. STONE

If fortune wrap thee warm,

Then friends about thee swarm,

Like flies about a honey pot;