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‘
I
—
I
do
a
little
in
that
way
,
’
replied
Mr
.
Snodgrass
,
rather
taken
aback
by
the
abruptness
of
the
question
.
‘
Ah
!
poetry
makes
life
what
light
and
music
do
the
stage
—
strip
the
one
of
the
false
embellishments
,
and
the
other
of
its
illusions
,
and
what
is
there
real
in
either
to
live
or
care
for
?
’
‘
Very
true
,
Sir
,
’
replied
Mr
.
Snodgrass
.
‘
To
be
before
the
footlights
,
’
continued
the
dismal
man
,
‘
is
like
sitting
at
a
grand
court
show
,
and
admiring
the
silken
dresses
of
the
gaudy
throng
;
to
be
behind
them
is
to
be
the
people
who
make
that
finery
,
uncared
for
and
unknown
,
and
left
to
sink
or
swim
,
to
starve
or
live
,
as
fortune
wills
it
.
’
‘
Certainly
,
’
said
Mr
.
Snodgrass
:
for
the
sunken
eye
of
the
dismal
man
rested
on
him
,
and
he
felt
it
necessary
to
say
something
.
‘
Go
on
,
Jemmy
,
’
said
the
Spanish
traveller
,
‘
like
black
-
eyed
Susan
—
all
in
the
Downs
—
no
croaking
—
speak
out
—
look
lively
.
’
‘
Will
you
make
another
glass
before
you
begin
,
Sir
?
’
said
Mr
.
Pickwick
.
The
dismal
man
took
the
hint
,
and
having
mixed
a
glass
of
brandy
-
and
-
water
,
and
slowly
swallowed
half
of
it
,
opened
the
roll
of
paper
and
proceeded
,
partly
to
read
,
and
partly
to
relate
,
the
following
incident
,
which
we
find
recorded
on
the
Transactions
of
the
Club
as
‘
The
Stroller
’
s
Tale
.
’
THE
STROLLER
’
S
TALE
‘
There
is
nothing
of
the
marvellous
in
what
I
am
going
to
relate
,
’
said
the
dismal
man
;
‘
there
is
nothing
even
uncommon
in
it
.
Want
and
sickness
are
too
common
in
many
stations
of
life
to
deserve
more
notice
than
is
usually
bestowed
on
the
most
ordinary
vicissitudes
of
human
nature
.
I
have
thrown
these
few
notes
together
,
because
the
subject
of
them
was
well
known
to
me
for
many
years
.
I
traced
his
progress
downwards
,
step
by
step
,
until
at
last
he
reached
that
excess
of
destitution
from
which
he
never
rose
again
.
‘
The
man
of
whom
I
speak
was
a
low
pantomime
actor
;
and
,
like
many
people
of
his
class
,
an
habitual
drunkard
.
in
his
better
days
,
before
he
had
become
enfeebled
by
dissipation
and
emaciated
by
disease
,
he
had
been
in
the
receipt
of
a
good
salary
,
which
,
if
he
had
been
careful
and
prudent
,
he
might
have
continued
to
receive
for
some
years
—
not
many
;
because
these
men
either
die
early
,
or
by
unnaturally
taxing
their
bodily
energies
,
lose
,
prematurely
,
those
physical
powers
on
which
alone
they
can
depend
for
subsistence
.
His
besetting
sin
gained
so
fast
upon
him
,
however
,
that
it
was
found
impossible
to
employ
him
in
the
situations
in
which
he
really
was
useful
to
the
theatre
.
The
public
-
house
had
a
fascination
for
him
which
he
could
not
resist
.
Neglected
disease
and
hopeless
poverty
were
as
certain
to
be
his
portion
as
death
itself
,
if
he
persevered
in
the
same
course
;
yet
he
did
persevere
,
and
the
result
may
be
guessed
.
He
could
obtain
no
engagement
,
and
he
wanted
bread
.
