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How thoroughly false all these absurd fictions are, and yet how ingeniously based on some fact, appears by the case of Agrippa's black dog. Another eminent magician of those days was Doctor Faustus, about whom Goethe wrote "Faust," Bailey wrote "Festus," and whose story, mingled of human love and of the devilish tricks of Mephistopheles, is known so very widely.
At the same moment the spare figure of a tinker whose name was Mac-an-Ward, the Son of the Bard, veered around the corner of a street with a new tin can under his arm. It was the Can with the Diamond Notch. Mac-an-Ward approached Festus Clasby, who pulled up his cart.
There can be no more instructive series of documents in this matter than the enthusiastic records of admiration which P. H. Bailey collected from the first poets of his time concerning his Festus. That work was no doubt a fine achievement; when I was fifteen I read it from end to end with real sympathy, and interest that was at least tepid.
I'll see into this, take my word for 't. Our honour is at stake. Now let's back to see my beauty home. 'We can't, as we hav'n't got our hats, said one of his fellow-troopers in domestic life Jacob Noakes, of Muckleford Farm. 'No more we can, said Festus, in a melancholy tone. 'But I must go to her and tell her the reason. She pulls me in spite of all. 'She's gone.
Already she had altered her attitude to the extent of admitting that it was principle, even though mistaken. Esmé had been subscribing to the "Clarion," and studying it; also she had written, withal rather guardedly, to sundry people who might throw light on the subject; to her uncle, to Dr. Festus Willard, who, alone of the correspondents, suspected the underlying motive.
After some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Cæsarea to visit Festus. As they remained there for many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the King. Agrippa said to Festus, "I should like to hear the man myself." "You shall hear him to-morrow," said Festus.
P. H. Bailey, the author of Festus, who still survives, is sometimes classed with them; but the chief members are admitted to have been Sydney Dobell and Alexander Smith, both remarkable persons, both failures of something which might in each case have been a considerable poet, and both illustrating the "second middle" period of the poetry of the century which corresponds to that illustrated earlier by Darley, Horne, and Beddoes.
He has never given his time to the art, and so does not know how to rivet them." "She vilifies me," said Mac-an-Ward, sotto voce. "Then I am glad he has not sold me one of his own," said Festus Clasby. "I have a fancy for the lasting article." "You may be able to buy it yet," said the woman.
The small farmers and herds and the hardy little dark mountainy men had this reverential feeling about the good man and his shop. They approached the establishment as holy pilgrims might approach a shrine. They stood at his counter with the air of devotees. Festus Clasby waited on them with patience and benignity. He might be some warm-blooded god handing gifts out over the counter.
'Festy, said the farmer reproachfully, 'you always know I use the old glove in the bedroom cupboard for any guinea or two I possess. 'Of course I do, said Festus ironically. They had now reached a lonely inn about a mile and a half from the hall, and, the farmer not responding to his nephew's kind invitation to come in and treat him, Festus entered alone.
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