Abel Keene
.A village schoolmaster, afterwards a merchant’s clerk. He was led astray, lost his place, and hanged himself.—Crabbe: Borough, Letter xxi.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.