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118 On another occasion, a domestic in the employ of a well-to-do householder, who lived in a house in front of Vidyasagar's lodgings, having been seized with Cholera, was sent away by his master and abandoned in the streets. The poor sufferer had no one to look after him, or to give him a drop of water. No sooner did Vidyasagar hear of it, than he hastened to the spot. He carried the unfortunate man on his shoulders to his lodgings, and gently laid him down on his own bed. He placed the poor man under the medical treatment of his friend, Doctor Durga Charan Banarji, paid for his medicines out of his own pocket, and nursed him with great care and tenderness. He thus saved the life of the helpless man, who recovered in a few days. But for his kindness, the unfortunate man must have died in the streets. Gentle reader, was not Vidyasagar a truly great and benevolent man?

Allusion has already been made of Vidyasagar's disinterested forwardness in securing, situations for his friends, relations and acquaintances, of worth and ability. The reader has seen how he secured appointments for Jay Narayan Tarkapanchanan, Madan Mohan Tarkalankar, Dvaraka Nath Vidyabhushan and Giris Chandra Vidyaratna. In this unselfish work of benevolence, he had sometimes to suffer pecuniary losses and even undergo physical pains. While he was still employed in the Fort William College on a salary of 50 rupees, the post of the first teacher of the Grammar class in the