The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1856-04-03

by ne trump of trumps, you shall have
chance to make pile this time
Ambrose hesiialcd II moment, and
then he pl crd his hand in his bosom
and drew forth package of bauk noIes.
/ ! here were four Thousand dollars in the
whole, 1t was Il sum he had drawn
from the bank that very day. Ii was
the accumulation oi over four Yea $ Ia
bor and ccon"my, for the purpose oi
pay ing for his house aud store lie
dIew out Il huulr d dollar b II, and COW
cred his ahta4oni,t's last stalk. lie
hcs,thlrd moment more, and then he
Il rw another huudl cd aud w,nr that
over The stranger rovrrrd the
itund ed, aud went fire hnndred better
Amb,"sc covered the five hundr d hul
hc dar d brt no more, aud he call d fn
his c"nrauion'- baud. The Il angc,
>mIiod-a~ hr showed ll--IoW quecm
Amh'"sr uttered II deep g,"an rs lc
f"ldrd his cald, and placed them Oh the
pack
BY my soul, that's hard, NY fri nd
But better LUX nxr tune. Com
| II deal Tor You Ihl> Tine
a NV hand WAS d,al', and his time
.Ambro,e won u huud eel dollars. H.,
u" gan to r,vivc. N,xt he won two
"rn cl mr.. lie went and rot an
. hr' Z AS al wine, and Ih,n returned
III n'Tnr >pi is But al 'lr n,x, han"
ne ."St five hundr, d II> sprri's ,ak
'9all But lia WAS now rrsnivrd to-
rl'y carefully aud win back what h
'ad lost, nj thru stop!
There Is ~ ned If following the
game stop hy step The man who II Id
h"'e ra''N was not prot So d gaumbl, I
n"r d'i he now g'mhle IL all for hl,
"Nn an'n,rncnl. but he had b. Il
''n"''g gambIr Is muca, aud he coulu
andI; ca d> II, he pleased. Aud m"r
'lill ic could handle IA nervous. cxc,ta
bic man as he pleased lie kept Ann
or"sc II good hunor- let him have &C
ca>lon'l fishes of lucls--and finally |
just aS the 81 ck struck 81 ven, Am
orooc Dearborn staggered up from The
'ablo--pvnniies>! Al, all, was gon
III, tsur thousand dollars the sun
which Vas TO have clcated hin frou
debt the sum which he had seen stead
, ly growing beneath his tf,n,s tor the
last toar ycars-was now swept away.
The young me- chant staggered from
, the ha'l-ho sized to borrow ii st, t"
oorrow son'cthing 10 commence again I"
win back something but no one would
tend lie made way to the street, and
Nlt"ont noting his way he staggered on
By andby he came to narrow alley
"hloh lei down to the water, aud H.,
'urncd DOWN upon the wha,f, and sal
down upon an old spar He had bce,
there bat a few moments, when he icl,
"A hand lp"n his shoulder. Ii. looked
np, and 10y The moonlight he could src
The dak lace of the man who had Iulu-
cd hun
Why d. you sit here in the snow =
asked tie stranger.
j. ave me - cried Ambrose, bitter
~. {, never couli sec you more
iOEi tbE llhlj
Bu, puhaps | may help you re-
piled 'In other. You are young rnous b
10 lra,u'
Learn! o, great hcav Ms and
have not learned Ibis night what ucvel
-urve'--'
The young man bu It into tears, aud
his sob, wr'c deep aud painful,
'C"uo, c"nr, spoNc the strange =,
stand up aud trust me, aud | may yet
hclp you
1he,c was something So kind in the
. vncc that Ambrose could moi resist
and hr a,n>r io his feet
'Amhosc Dra, bonn spoke the
silan tr m,n, have this vrnins tak
en- from ynu ovr f,ty rwb hdhi"u
dollar. an, | dn not think ynn can al
,orl tn Ids, il. Here we are, hrf"r"
Col Now proui,c me-, up'n your
In ,,r os a man. thar. r'ul vii n'>rr
stake any ,m uor nrktfaaHig'i"--'h"'
never nrin n,ll you -1'lay at ANY gan &c
I,t chance fr the valu oi ,nlt ing -
ant wllltc,ore rn yrn wy lenny |
hayy wol iron YOU tonight 7!