The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-07-29
.VEESCELE.E.s.EOES.
TIE SILVER sIxpENrE.


do you see here" said ragged little
boy to group Of young gaIly dressed ur.
chins, as he came up from Market street
wharf, IN Philadelphia :" do you see here,
Ave got silver slxpence."
They all set up hearty laugh, ~
g Why" said Jeremiah Budd, whose faith
or was wealthy shipper, i have got SIX
silver dollars to spend 90 Chisimas-and
that fellow is proud Of slSpeaee"
Theodore heard 1t, and looked thought.
fully on the ground for moment; then
recollectiug himself, g six dollars to spend +"
mut,ered be, {" bat sixpencc 10 keep IS bet
ter than that.
Theodore kept his sixpence in bis peck
Ell carefully wrapped up, for several weeks !
when one day, his uncle, Who kept fruit
shop at the corner Of the alley where be
lived, said to him, "Tbeodore, your six
pence don't grow 10 your pocket-you
should plant it."
The little boy understood him better
when he told hlm, if be pleased be might
buy some fruit 10 the market with it, and
stand 1t IN his shop and sell i out again
He embraced the offer doubled his money
the ffst day and went on until be had as
much fruit TO s4I as be bad room for ID bis
little corner.
His uncle observed the thrifty, and, with
al, honest turn Of the boy, finally took him
into bis store, Us an assistant, aud allowed
him privilege TO trade in sundry specified
articles on has own account. The closest
attention to business, the most careful man.
agement of his small frads, and the run Of
good luck, as i; is called, which generally
runs 10 those that are saving, industrious
aud prudent, in the course Of three or four
years, enabled hin to 90 into full partner.
ship with his uncle, and TO extend his bust.
ness to double his former amount.
Having trimmed bis sails right at first, il
became kidd Of second nature with Theo.
dore, to keep what sailors would call close
TO the wind; and he made headway aston.
ishiDgty uow. Soon after be was twenty
one, he was able TO buy out the whole stool,
OF dry goods merchant, and 20 into bust.
ness on his own account entirely. Sill be
prospered, became an importer; changed
finally his business for wholesale concern
embarked in the India trade; and at last
married fine girl, whose fortune was bul
little inferior to his own and it was said
after that occurrence. he was not worth
less than hall million
Theodore now lived in an elegant man
eion IN Arch street, kept hrs carriage, and
bad every thing in pretty style; yet atten
ded TO business. That he might never
lose sigh, of his good fortune, the silver
sixpenoe was blended with the arms on bis
Garage; II formed the seal with which he
stamped bis letters, and no had one of the
coin--he used to say the very identlca
one he first owned--fastened upon the desl
in his counting room. Remembering thus
constantly that BY small means he had ris
en-, he still, amid much we'll bestowed char
i.y, and IN the constant practice of true be-
nevelence, looked well to small things, anc
mover forget how to reckon pence as vel
as pounds.
Thus smoothly were Theodore's affairs
going forward, when ono suliry summer.
day, just as he had entered his counting
room, thin squalid figure presented him
self at the counter, and asked for employ
msnt. He wore thread bare suit O
black, an old hat, and his shoes were almoa