The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-11-14
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THE SILVER sIYPENCE

THE SILVER SIXPENCE.
10 you see here" said ragged little how
10 a group of gaily dressed urchins. as he cane
oo you see hetSs=Iy vt t5t u sIIvtf pence.
they all set up hearty laugh. Why, said
Jeremiah Bcdd, whose father was wealthy
shipper. have six dollars to spend on Christ
mas, and that fellow is proud Of his six-pence.
Theodore heard it and looked thoughtfully at
the ground for a monent-,hen recollecting
himself, 9 SIX dollars 90 Spen3." muttered he ;
=" but six-pence to keep is better than that
! Theodore kept his six-pence in his pocket
carefully wrapped up for several weeks, wht
one day his uncle, who kept fruit shop at the
corner Of the alley where he lived said to him,
= Theodore your sixpence don't grow IN your
pocket-you should plant it," The little boy
understood him better when he told HIM that
if he pleased, &c might buy some fruit in the
market with it and stand in his shop and sell it
oct again He embraced the offer and doab-
led his money the first day. and went on until
he had as much fruit as he had room for in his
little corner.
His uncle observing the thrifty, and withal
honest turn Of the boy, finally took him into
his store, as an assistant, and allowed him 70
trade IN sundry articles on his own account
! The closest attention TO business the most
careful management of his small funds, and
that run of good luck, as it is called, which
generally runs with those who are saving, in
dustrlous and prudent, enabled MIN in three or
four years TO 90 into full partnership with his
uncle, AID to extend the business to double its
former amount
Having trimmed his sails right at first, it had
( become a kind of second nature with Theodore
to keep what the sailors would call close TO the
wind and he made head way astonishingy
now Soon after he was twenty-one he was
able TO buy out the whole stock Of dry goods
merchant, and to 90 into that business on his
! own account entirely. Still he prospered be-
came an importer; changed finally his business
/ for that of wholesale concern; embarked in
/ the India trade ; and at last married fine girl
whose fortune was but little inferior TO his
! own, and it was said after that occurrence that
he was worth not less than half million.
/ Theodore now lived in an elegant mansion
/ IN Arch-street ; kept his carriage and every
thing in pretty style yet attended as usual to
his business. That he might never lose sight
of the origin of his good fortune the silver six
pence was blended with the upon his
Tiagv, - e.-...ea tes,el with which he stamp
ed his letters, and be had one of the coins, he
used to say the very identical one he first own
ed, fastened upon his desk in the counting
/ room.
A thin, squallid figure one day presented it.
self at his counter, and asked for employment
He a thread bare suit of black, an old hat,
and his shoes were ready to drop from his feel.
/ In what capacity, asked Theodore do YOU wish
! employment? In any capacity, was the reply ::
/ but, sr, continued the stranger, wiping tear
/ from his eye with his coat-sleeve, my father
was a merchant, and he brought me up to his
/ profession | should therefore be glad of en-
/ ployment as clerk.
Theodore looked at the man closely. He
! thought he saw some lineauent he remember
/ cd. What ls your name? he asked The
stranger hesitated a moment, hung down his
/ head and replied in low whisper, Jeremiah
I Budd All said Theodore, recollecting him
instantly, and you have got clear of your six
dollars long ago. / fancy, Jeremiah Yes, said
J jeremiah with a sigh, but haze not forgotten
/ the little boy with the silver sixpence. Had |
! been half as careful of nv thousands as he was
/ of his eixpence | should not have been here
friondess and pennyless to-day.
| There was half triumphant smile in Theo-
dore's face, as he took the hand of his visitor,
which seemed to spring from much seli-com-
placent feeling, but was excusable, because
it arose partly from the consciousness of his a
bity to aid one whose imprudence had caused
! his misfortune, but who appeared now TO see
and confess his error lie took the applicant
into his employ, and in process oftime restored
him 10 the business doing world, an active, pru-
dent and valuable man.
The lesson taught in the story is too plain tC
need word in addition. l will simply ask
where is the needy man who has not spent
more money foolishly in his life than would be
necessary to make him comfortable now
! a foreign Journal concludes an account oi
the manner in which the Austraasians clear
the land of standing wood, with the following
! demi- poetic paragraph:
= When the trees have been feled they are
cross cut IN convenient lengths, and the logs
are rolled together in heaps and ignited Suck
boniires never were made at the burning o.
heretics, or for the commelnoration of a veto
ry, as have seen in the wilds of Australasia
can hardly imagine what would be the sensa
tions of stranger travelling there for the hrs
time by night, and coming suddenly upon al
opening of two or three hundred acres in the
forest, covered with hills Of fire, not flame, 70
the wood being green does not blaze, but con
sumes with white heat. A luFid glare fall
on every thing around him, and the heat of tn
air is increased almost TO suffocation Th'
rustlng Of the grass that he hears is not occa
stoned by the wind, but by the lizards, and gu
anus rushing from tho ruin of their homes. |
is not an endless black cord drawn across tn,
path that he sees, but deadly ssrpents hurryins
from the nests that are made too hot for them
The hsh feel the heat in the neighboring creek
but the FLASHING is not made by them; the re
treating shoals OF reptiles take TO the waite
and go Kissing through it like saiamander
rushing from the fires"
Coon MEMORY To somo one who wa
complaining of his memory, DR.. Johnson sal
:. Pray, sir, do you ever forgot what money yo
have in your pocket or, who gave you th
last kick on the shins' Now if you pay tn
same attention to what you read as you do t
,, your temporal concerns and your bodily feel
ings, you would impress it as deeply ON you
memory"
Much tongue and thinking are two quit
E different faculties-and there is commonl
. more depth when there is less noise.
a Some men are silent, for want of matter {
, assurance; and some talhative fos want
Z sense