The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-11-10

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trader to the young man the very next NOR.
ming aiter the purchase Of the pickles.
And SO Mr.. Waldron led our hero to the
back side ofthe store and opened box.
There Mathews Gih't these mics ofah.
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They are nice,' replied Charles, did b
they really were. 'as 'np 'ri atr ass
Il Know your wife would like SOME u
these. / carried some into my wife, and
she wanted me to save sher four or FIVE
| aosen.' ,ili
These are nice! How do they come.
= Lets see; can send you upthree doz.
en- for 4 dollsE. ] get these very eheep
You know they are retailing at five and sia
cents apiece, 5ar.A sa '..a fa,
Yes. Well you may send me up the
three dozen. Just charge them, if you
please ..~...'.. ....
: Certainly. Anything else this morning'
Il believe not.' ~. p. ~.
And SO Mathews went on. This morn.
ing 1t would be dollar-to morrow perhaps
fifty cents. 1t din't seem much. The
young man kept just as much money in his
pocket as though he hadn't bought them.
Only dollan' he would say to himself.
'That isn't much out of IL dollars week,
And SO it might not be, but the trouble was,
that the next dollar was also only dollar.
He forgot to add this dollar with the former
dollar and call 1t two doliars,' and with the
last dollar, and call it three, and SO on.
One evening Charles came home with a
new gold chain attached to his watch.
Where did you get that?' asked his wife.
'Ah,' returned the husband, with en- i'm
pressive shake of the head. l made bar.
gain in this chain. Now guess wha, paid
for itr
Pm sure can't guess
20 but try-guess something
Well, perhaps ten dollars
Ten dollars!' echoed Charles with
sort Of disappointed look. why what are
you thinking of! Jack Cummings bought
this chain two months ago, and paid twenty
dollars cash for it. WHY just lift it and see
how heavy it is. Eighteen currats fine.
Jack was hard up for money, and he let me
have it for twelve dollars
1t is cheap, to be sure, returned Han
nah, but yet with not so much peasurable
surprise as her husband had anticipated
But, she added you did not need it, and
know you will feel the loss of the money!
Pooh! | have money enough. You
know have not spent much money lately
have been pretty saving
But you forget our things, Charles. The
money you have on hand is not yours
Not mine"
mo. 1t belongs to the store keeper, and
to the butcher, and to our landlord. You
know they must be payed.'
Don't you fret about them. know it
don't cost me anywhere near twelve dollars
week to live, for have made an estimate.
There is Wilkins, who works right by the
side OF me in the shop, he has four children,
and only gets the same wages that do, and
yet he lays up some three or four dollars
every week, besides paying his rent
Yes said Hannah, know he does.
was in to see his wife the other day, and
she was telling how we'll they were getting
along: Mr.. Wilkins takes his basket every
Saturday evening and goes over to the mar
ket and buys his weeks quantity of meat.
vegetables; and trades for cash, so that he
gets everything at the best advantage. So
he does at the sotre. He lays in u quantity
bf tll those articles which will keep, and
and buys them as cheap as he can Butter,
eggs, cheese, apples, and so on, he buys
when the market is full, and when they arc
cheap, and he always bhys enough to last
his family over the season Of scarcity, when
such things are high. His butter for
instance, he bought for eighteen cents
pound--a whole ferkin of it-and it is much
sweeter than that you paid twenty. eight
cents yesterday. ..,.. IT,.
'Twenly-eight cents!, repeated the young
man in surprise.
yes. | asked Mr.. Waldron's man who
brought it up, aid he said it had risen to
twenty-eight cents. Mr.. Wilkins got fifty
dozen of eggs some time ago for twelve
cents dozen, and his wife packed them
down and they keep we'll. You will have
to pay MIR. Waldron thirty-three cents foI
those he sent up yesterday aa
Charles Mathews wis tstohished at this
view Of the case, but it could not be helped
now; and the subject was dropped. Hi
gold cham had lost its chattf., 1t did no
look so we'll, even in his own eyes as hat
the simple black cord he had w6th before.
A. length the end uf the Quarter cath'
| around. The first bill paid was tho rent
which amounted to thirty -one dollars! The
next was the butchers bill, which catfle t
! thirty-six dollars. Charles was astonishet
to see how the meat bill footed up. Blu
when he saw how many steaks he had hat
| at seventeen cents per pound the cause %
wonder was at an end. Next he paid th'
bakers bill, which was thirteen dollars.-
when he came home in the evening he ha'
paid all his bills except the grocery bill,
/ 'Waldfok sent in His bill to-day his wifi
said after sapper, sail 8s
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