Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman, by William L. Stone This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman Author: William L. Stone Release Date: December 24, 2007 [EBook #24024] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UPS AND DOWNS *** Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) 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, U P S A N D D O W N S I N T H E L I F E O F A D I S T R E S S E D G E N T L E M A N . 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; But if fortune frown, And cast thee down, Thou mayest lie and rot. NEW-YORK: LEAVITT, LORD & CO. 180 BROADWAY. BOSTON:—CROCKER & BREWSTER. 1836. Entered, according to Act of Congress, by Leavitt, Lord & Co.