Litchfield enquirer., 1830-11-25
THE SILVER sIXPENCE.

Do you see here,' said ragged little boy, to group of young, gaily dressed ur. chins as he came from Market street wharf in Philadelphia, do you see here, I've got a silver sixpence.' They set up hearty laugh; why said Jeremiah Budd, whose father was wealthy shipper, l have six dollars to spend on Christmas--and that fellow is proud of sixpence.' Theodore heard it, and looked thoughtfully on the ground for moment-recollecting, six dollars to spend,' muttered he, but six pence to save is better than all that
 'Theodore kept his sixpence in his pocket carefully wrapped up for several weeks, when one day his uncle, who kept fruit shop at the corner of the alley where he lived, said to him. Theodore, your six pence don't grow in your pocket-you should plant it. The little boy under- stood him better when he told him, that if he pleased he might buy some fruit in the market and stand in the shop and sell it a. gain. He embraced this offer ;-doubled his money the first day, and went on until he had as much fruit to sell as he had room for in his little corner. ......
 His uncle observed the thrifty, and with al honest turn with the boy, finally took him into the store us an assistant, and al- lowed him to trade in sundry specific arti- cles on his own account. The close atten- ton to business, the most careful manage ment of his small funds, and that run of good luck, as it is called, which generally runs with those who are saving, industri- ous and prudent, in the course of three or four years, enabled him to go into full partnership with his uncle, and to extend the business to double its former amount.
 Having trimmed his sails right at first, it had become kind of second nature with Theodore to keep what the sailors would call close to the wind and he made head way astonishingly now. Soon after he was twenty one, he was able to buy out the whole stock of dry goods merchant, and go into business, on his own acconnt, en- tirely. Still he prospered became an im- porter changed finally his business for a wholesale concern; embarked in the In- dia trade and at last married fine girl, whose fortune was but little inferior to his own; and it was said after that occurred. that he was worth no less than half mill ion.
 Theodore now lived in an elegant man. sion 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 sixpence was blended with the arms upon his carriage. It formed the seal with which he stamped his letters, and he had one of the coins, he used to say the very identical one he first owned, fast. ened upon his desk in the counting room. Remembering thus constantly that by small means he had risen he still, amid much well bestowed charity, and in the constant practice of true open benevolence, looked well to small things, and never forgot how to reckon pence as well as pounds.
 Thus smoothly were Theodore's affair. going on, when one sultry summers day just as he had entered his counting room thin squalid figure presented himself a the counter, and asked for employment He wore threadbare suit of black, an olG hnt, and bis shoes were almost ready to drop of from his feet. 'In what capaci. ty,' asked Theodore, do you wish for en- plcymentr In any capacity, was the