Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1853-12-24
pymauth, ehiu, Saturday Murnug, 9srembsr d, 1853

that vessel WORTH
'She is worth twenty thousand dollars,
said the owner and builder; she cost
that as she is, and she will bring twenty
five thousand the very hour peace is de-
clared.'
'Would you like the money for her a,
a cash pricer
.NoIhing would be more acceptable.
But there are not fifteen thousand dollars
in the country
The remarks Of Mary about her fathers
respectsfor a ship owner had been run
ming in Henry's head ever since they
were uttered, and he beckoned aside the
owner,
Mr.. Holiness said .!enry, Il have
commission 10 fulfil, and. as you must
know l am not much Of business man,
| must ask you to consider proposition
which am about to make 10 you, and to
answer me explicitly
Let me hear the proposition
Il will give you ten thousand dollars
for the brig as she now lies
'And the time of payment
'Wilhin forty days. You cannot want
the money sooner; the river is. frozen
over, and you coGld make no use of the
cash before that time.'
Mr.. Holmes turned to Bradford, and
said You know, Henry, that l am
aware ttat you have not the means of
payment, and also that you are not per-
son likely to be employed as an agent in
such business, and yet have every con-
fidence in your word.'
Henry explained full y to the ship-own-
er the state Of his affairs. and exhibi ed
to him the lottery ticket No. 5, 4, 3, 2.
But said Mr.. Holmes, 'there may
be some mistake about the matter, or
some failure of the lottery, by which l
should lose.'
Henry explained his motives and wish
es, and in two hours lie held in his hand
a bill of snle Of the brig He.vetius. which
as the papers were not obtained, he i'm
media,ely renamed MARY. The condi-
ton was, that Henry was to hold the
vessel for forty days, and if, within that
time, he should pay ten thousand dollars,
she was to be his; if not, she was 10 re.
vert TO Mr.. Holmes, who, in the mean
time, held the ticket as a sort of collateral.
The bill of sale, as saw it, bore date
9Th of Feb. 1915. Henry felt like a
new man. He was a ship owner in a
place where that character was sort of
aristocracy. He went day after day to
look at his brig, wishing for the time TO
pass away for the prize to be paid but
he said nothing yet to Mr.. Carver.
One evening. while Henry was talking
with Mary. she asked him what he in
tended to do with his vessel when the
forty days were up.
Rig her, beud her sails; and then
sell her, or send her to sea-
'Why, Henry, it took all the licke, to
buy the hull AMI standing spars, and it
will take ha.f as much more to rig her
and find canvass and besides that, how
can you sell her for more than Holmes
could ?
Henry hesitated he had net thought ol
that but he did not doubt bat it would
all come right yet.
Henry was sitting the next day on the
quarter rail Of his brig. looking a: the
masts, well covered with snow and ice
and thinking Of the better appearance
she would make after the rigger had done
his duty. At length he felt the hand O.
Mr.. Holmes upon his shoulder.
'Henry,' said the latter, Il am sorry
to have bad news 70 tell you. Read tha
paragraph in the Boston Sentinel
sCoRREcTIoN.--The ticket which drew
the highest prize in the Plymouth Beacl
Lottery was 4, S, 8, 2, and not as ou
compositors had it last week, S, 4, 3. 2
We understand that gentleman of wealtI
in the southern part of this town is tn,
fortunate holder
'What do you say to that, Henry 2
'Only that the old gentleman will no
say that have the wages Of gambling
mo nor will he give you the credi
of being ship owner said Mr.. Holmes
sYou have been unfortunate, Henry
and am sorry for you,' continued Mr.
Holmes. changing MS tone considerably
and regret my own loss, as have neet
of the money but as you cannot pay fol
the brig, you had better hand me the bill
of sale, and let US destroy it,
Henry drew from his pocket the pre-
cious document, and, while he examined
it from top to bottom, he said to M
Holmes: ......-.
This affair has been to me like a pleas
ant dream, not only on account of my
aspirations for Mary, which you are &C
quainted with, but day after day, / have
tell growing energy for business, ser
, of outreaching of the mind, q deterlni
nation, with such q noble beginning, Il
proceed cautiously but steadily 10 d
, what ought 10 have begun years since
Then, as the bill has yet some days Il
run before ! can be chargeable with vic
luton OF contract, will restore it to m,
| pocket-book, and if / cannot aream as
| have done, shall not, at least, be awak
ened too suddenly.
4 The ship-owner Of course, consented
as he really had no right TO claim th'
J, vessel until the forty days should hav'
expired; and Bradford went up to tel
Mary of the new turn his luck had taken
4 Though she respected her father to-
much to feel pleasure in Henry s neM