Sue Anderson

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King Lear · Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074 - Various · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

The reader may perhaps smile when I inform him that at this time I was considered by many as a man of letters, and that I earned my bread in consequence of my practical engagements in relation to them.

This indeed was the case, but

For I was employed to carry letters to and from the offices of the different merchants in the town and neighborhood.

My punctuality and despatch in this respect were much in my favour.

So that I was generally employed in preference to those who enjoyed the use of all their senses.

In the course of time my sphere was enlarged, and often on important business I have borne dispatches to the distance of thirty or forty miles.

This was certainly not a little extraordinary in a place where the confusion and bustle of business subjected me to many dangers.

Being advised to attempt the study of music by

I made an almost fruitless effort to

as I had no person to instruct me.

But although I could only scrape a few tunes which I had learned by ear,

This did not prevent me from being called on occasionally to officiate at dances.

For no matter how despicable the musician

Or insignificant his instrument.

The sound operates like an invisible charm.

elevates the passions of the lower orders.

Makes them shake their grief and their cares off at their heels.

And moving on the light, fantastic toe.

Causes them to forget the bitterness of the past.

and prevents them from brooding over the prospect of future evils.

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