Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-05-24
VOL. X.-NO. 80.
THE GIRL WITH THE TIN PAIL.

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goodly city of Rochester. The business of
which | was obtaining a knowledge, was
conducted upon Exchange street, though H.
boarded in one of the streets in the western
part of the city. ~
In going to my tea. | was in the habit Of
meeting, almost every evening, for many
weeks in succession, a small, young, WE'LL
dressed and good-looking girl, with a little
tin pail in her hand. At length my curiosity
became excited, and I resolved to ascertain,
il possible, the daily errand Of the GIRL
Having met her the following evening, / ac-
cordingly turned upon my heel, and followed
her at a distance that would not excite sus-
picious in any one. at length saw her
enter a smsll shoemaker's shop on South St.
Paul street. ! subsequently learned that
the shop was owned by an industrious
young man and an excellent mechanic, and
that he was the girl's-husbdnd! He had
been married a few months, and possessing
no other capital than a good trade, a good g
name and a robust constitution, had resolved
to economic in the article of rent, by hir-
ing a house in the suburbs Of the city. His
break fast was always ready for him by day
break, and taking his dinner with him, beit
saved the hour each day which most persons
spend in going 10 and returning from that
meal. Many economists would have been
satisfied with the saving Of as much time as
this between the rising and going down Of
the sun but not so the young shoemaker. Z
He also wished to save the hour usually de-
voted to tea, and therefore had that meal dai.
" taken TO him by his pretty little wife. This
arrangement enabled him TO spend the whole
day, and so much ofthe evening as he chose
in the shop.
The industrious habits Of the shoemaker
were soon discovered, and met with their
due reward. Customers hocked in upon
him, and he was obliged not only TO rent a
large shop, but TO employ an additional num-
Der of workmen. But the increase of busi-
ness did not win him from the plan he had
early adopted for the saving of time-his
third meal still having been taken to him
by his wife in the little tin pail.
About this time | left the city, and did
not return for some twelve years. had
however forgotten the shoemaker, having
from my first knowledge of him, discovered
the germ Of success in his manner Of life
| visited the spot where his old shop had stood
but il had given place to a new brick block
In vain | looked about for his sight was
nowhere to be seen. l was at length in
formed by a friend. that ahnnt two years
previously he bad removed to Ohio. sn'
DO you know any thing of his circum-
stancesr / inquired. i4a
Il do. In the first place he took to Ohio
about FIVE thousand dollars in cash, from
three thousand of which, invested in real
estate, near Cincinnati, he has alresdy real
lied three times that amount. The other
two thousand he put into a pork establish
ment, and that sum has yielded him a large
profit. But even had he not resoried to
speculation added my friend, he could not
but have succeeded in life, so thorough were
his business habits, and especially as those
habits were seconded by such an industrious
little wife.
have recently returned from a visit to
Ohio, and have again seen the shoemaker
and his wife. He is but now in the prime
Of life, and possesses an ample fortune and
an unsullied reputation for probity. Never
having had any personal acquaintance with
MIN, | inquired him out, and introduced
myself to him as a Rochesteronian This
was very late in the afternoon and l very
cheerfully accepted an invitation TO take
tea with him. Improving a moment of sic
lence at the table, remarked. SCI
Il fear Mr.. H., that you are moi so great
an economist Of time as you used to be-
why not 2 he inquired.
when / first became acquainted with
Hrs. III. you could not afford time TO 60 to
tea, and she used to carry il to YOU
In a little tin pail said she, bursting into
a laugh.
Exactly aI
Indeed Mr.. w. have you known us so
long?' O.
then made myself known as the former
apprentice of Mr.. r., and was Immediately
recognized by Mrs. III. as one Of her earliest
street acquaintance in Rochester.
But that pail-what do you think has be-
come of that 2 asked Mr.. ii.
That, [ suppose, was long since NUM-
bered among the things that were,' an
swered.
BY no means, said he with smile, at tho
same time tipping a wink to his wife.
She arose from the table and left the
room, and soon returned with the identical
pail, as they both assured me. / need
hardly say, that it bore palpable evidences of
the ravages Of time.
But what is your object, Mr.. II. in pre-
serving that pailf
Its associations We look upon it as
one of the earliest instruments which con-
tributed to our success in life, and as such
we shall ever cherish it,
/ soon after took my leave Of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. and their interesting and happy
family and not a day since then has my
mind been without its remembrances Of the
Girl and her Tin PaiL-Rochester Dem.
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