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knew very well what he was about ; and having
drawn the cork in solemn silence, filled two
glasses, and set the bottle and a third clean glass
on the table.
You shall drink the other bottle, Wally, he
said when you have come TO good fortune
when you are a thriving, respected, happy man
when the start in life you have made to day shall
have brought you. as | pray Heaven it may =
to a smooth part of the course you have to run,
my child. My love to you !"
Some orthe fog that hung about old Sol SEEM
ed to have got into his throat for he spoke hus-
killv.-His hand shook, too. as he clinked his
glass against his nephew's. But having once
got the wine to his lips, he tossed it of like a
man. and smacked them afterward.
Dear Uncle said the boy, affecting to make
light of it, while the tears stood in his eyes, for
the honor you have done me, ct c%ctera. ct etcra,
| shall now beg to pror''se Alr. Solomon ellis
with three times three and one cheer more.
Hurrah and you'll return thanks, Uncle. when
we drink the last bottle together won't you 2
They clinkcd their glasses again and Wal
ter, who was boarding his wine, took a sip oft
and held the glass up to his eye with as critical
an air as he could possible assume.
His Uncle sat looking at him for some time in
silence. When their eyes at last met, be began
at once to pursue the theme that had occupied his
thoughts, aloud, as he had been speaking all the
time.
You see, Walter he said, in truth this bust
ness is merely a habit with me. an so accus-
toned to the habit that could hardly live if |
re!inquished it but there's nothing doing, no.
thing doing. When that uniform was worn,
pointing out toward the little midshipnan, then,
indeed. fortunes were to be made. and were
made. But competition. competition-new in
~vcntion. new invention-altcration altcration--
the worlds gone past me. hardly know where
| am myself, much less where my custornersare.'
Never mind en-. Uncle
sSince YOU came home from weekly boarding.
school at Pcckham. for instance-and that's
ten days said Solomon-'l don't remember
more than one person that has come into the
shop
Two, Uncle, don't You recollect There
was the man who came to ask for change for a
sovereign
That's the one said Solomon.
why, Uncle, don't you call the woman any
body who came to ask the way to Mile-End
Turnpike ?
'Oh it's true said solomon, l forgot her.
Two persons
70 be sure they didn't buy anything cried
the boy.
No. They didn't buy anything said Solo
mon quietly.
Nor want anything cried the boy.
NO. Ifthey had, they'd have gone to another
shop said Solomon in the same tone.
But there were two of EN-, Uncle cried the
boy, as ifthat were a great triumph. You said
only one
well, Wally,' resume the old man, after a
short pause 'not being like the Savages who
came on Robinson Crusoe's island, we cant
live on a man who asks for change for a sovcr
eign. and a woman who inquiries the way tc
Mile-ind Turnpike. As said Just now, the
world has gone past inc. | don't blame it hut
no longer understand it Tradesincn are not thu
same a they used to be, apprentices are not the
same, business is not the same. business coInmo
dities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my
stock is old-fashioned. | am an old-fashioned
man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that i,
not the same as remember it. ! have fallen be
hind the time and am too old to catch it again
Even the noise it makes a long way ahead con
fuses me-
Walter was going to speak, but his Uncle helt
up bis hand.
, Therefore, Wallv-thercfore it is that an
anxious YOU should be early in the busy world
5 and on the worlds track. am only the ghost o
D this busincss-its substance vanished long ago
/, and when | die, its ghost will be laid. As Il
; clearly no inheritance for you. then, ! have
thought it best to use for your advantage, almos
f the only fragment of the old connection tina
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: and be happy 1-.a,o ,ou.
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