Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-02-23
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Merchant or Farmeri-Whicb is BcstI

! Merchant or Farmeri-Whicb is BcstI
Mr.. A.-Good morning, Mr. b: ] called
| to see if You wanted clerk should like
| to nut my son into your store for while.
Mr.. B.-Indecd | thought you needed
him on your farm
| so do ncod him but don't want nv
! children to work as hard as | have had to
| digging and delving. tell you it's too hard;
| I'm fairly worn all out
| All you look more hale md hearty than
the most of u.s. and yet you must be quite as
| old
Yes, I am turned OF seventy. But
grow lame and stiff, and it's all from hard
work
Over seventy And am hut sixty, and
my partner younger still, yet you see our
| gray hairs
Well. wcll-something in families about
that. may he. But do you want my boy
| No, sir. >
Why not .
Because you want to put him here to Hre
easy, and he'll he good for nothing. 'as clerk
or merchant either. in that way. We mer-
chants have to work hard if we would gain
anything and we have to work good many
more hours in a year than you do
Yes, yes, more hours perhaps; but the
work isn't half so hard. Here you are in a
cool room in summer, and warm in
winter, while we are exposed to heat and
| cold, wet and drv.'
Il know it looks so to you. But now do
you 60 into a room and spend all one long
day. walking it from side to side lodging
this way and that, and see if long before
| night you do not want to get out Of prison
see if you are not tired enough before supper
time to be glad to sit down in the evening
with your family and your newspaper But
no-you must 90 back to your prison, and
dodge and Jump all the evening harder than
Ind INyha bod inn
post books
20 you tell it all on your side. But sup
pose it is so, you make money. and when old
age comes on, you can retire from business
and live easy.
= Not a whit better than YOU can.
thought as you do once and tried it. I
thought could give up the confinement and
labor, and only orersee. But this did not
! give me ease or leisure so got head clerk,
and RETIRED as you call it; and what wa.
the result Why, failed. And what did
. you and everybody else say1 Why, I had
quit work. and tried to be a gentleman. and
no wonder I smashed it was good enough for
folks"
know such things were said, but VIC
r didn't know you heard OF them But now
: Just look Mt the poor farmers crops this
summer. halfdried up. just think of such
!, losses after all our labor
Yes and the dav .aboures too, who are out
. of work in conseeouence of the unfavorable
sea son will all fall nnon me 10 knock of mat
c a little ~ their store account because, eyery
r thinr tnev huv of tho farmer comes so hirh:'
0 and must do il too. or he such stinrv
{ .icht jew. thevlI never 20 there TO trade
I again to saw NOTHING of those that 20 off
without ravinr at all"
Vt 'wolI | sunnose merchant, do have losses
It as we'll as farmers. But il seems as if YOU
didn { have half so many vexati0ns-s showers
comincrn tools brooI;n, co,,io in ,ba corn,
IT and ,yLot'r :, -
d .vaxotion yoy know notbinr about it
o Come here and wait unon uncoverned chill
dren try to satisfy an old woman that a ten
Z cent calico won't faiie lower the price of a
rair Of shoes or plug of tobacco to suit an
/ Irshman find something nice enough for a
y fashionable young lady grave enough for a
y quaker CAV enough for n darkee stvlish
- enough for dandy-and can't suit one of
II them till they have looked somewhere else /.
# and vo" may fold nv and pile up your goods
10 ne reahy ior the next unsatisfabie set.
Z, w De- YOU know nothlng about ve1atlons