Languages & literature > Aurus clavus, or, The adventures of a gold trinket, supposed to have been written by itself

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CHAP. XI.
EDWIN PRIMROSE.
Shortly after being bereaved of my late
lamented master, I came into the hands of one
of his fellow-students, who, cherishing a great
respect for his school and college companion,
came and saw his obsequies performed. I was
left, as a token of sincere friendship, by Andrew
Manson to Edwin Primrose, who had at various
times admired my shape, my make, and beauty,
while in Andrew's possession. I have little of
importance to narrate regarding my new pos¬
sessor, for the same unvaried scenes and daily
routine of monotonous duties had nothing in
them worth recording to the reader, except one
incident which caused my making a very novel
transit into another’s possession.
Winter coming on, and the frost setting in,
the “ curlers were again at their roaring play,”
and my master among the rest, when two or
three of them came in contact in their circuitous
skimmings, and rolled their unwieldy hulks
against each other, till their fall caused others