The Table book; . survived. He had foughthard in the conflict of the battle-field—theconflict of love had not smoothed his wrinkled front. He trudged onward,and persevered till he reached the cottageof his nativity. It was humble but drew the latch, crossed the threshhold,and entered the domicile. An elderlyfemale was lying on a bed. Her niece satby the bedside reading to her. The maidenrose, and, putting the book aside, questionedhis name and business. He threw downhis knapsack ; he caught the countenance,though faded from its youth, like his, of hisdear, bedridden Mary, and, clasping
The Table book; . survived. He had foughthard in the conflict of the battle-field—theconflict of love had not smoothed his wrinkled front. He trudged onward,and persevered till he reached the cottageof his nativity. It was humble but drew the latch, crossed the threshhold,and entered the domicile. An elderlyfemale was lying on a bed. Her niece satby the bedside reading to her. The maidenrose, and, putting the book aside, questionedhis name and business. He threw downhis knapsack ; he caught the countenance,though faded from its youth, like his, of hisdear, bedridden Mary, and, clasping hishands with hers, sat many hours recitinghis history, and listening in tears to heiafHictions, occasioned by his roving dispo-sition. He now, to make reparation,seasoned her hopes by promises of finalrest with her till their suns should settogether in the sphere of earthly repose;for Mary was the only person living of allhis once numerous companions in thaOltn— Dt. Ycang. t Shakspeare. 702, THE TABLE BOOK,. GEOKGE WATSON, THE SUSSEX CALCULATOR. This singular being, who in every thing,but his extraordinary powers of memoryand calculation, is almost idiotic, was bornat Buxted, in Sussex, in 3 785, and hasfollowed the occupation of a labourer. Heis ignorant in the extreme, and uneducated,not being able to read or write; and yethe can, with facility, perform some of themost difficult in arithmeticThe most extraordinary circumstance, however, is the power he possesses of recollect-ing the events of every day, from an earlyperi£)d of his life. Upon being asked,what day of the week a given day of themonth occurred? he immediately names it,and also mentions where he was, and whatwas me state of the weather. A gentle- man who had kept a diary, put many questions of this kmd to him, and his replieswere invariably correct. Watson has madetwD -jT three tours into Hampshire, Wiltslib-=^ Gloucestershire, and Somersetshire,ana has exhibited his singular powers inthe princ
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