Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-05-15
NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND.

: Neuer too Late 10 MsHd' is scarcely :
sxceIled by any thing from the pen oil
DICKENS:
aMeadows found Mr.. Clinton at y
Peels."
Z" Mr.. Clinton, want man of intel
Iigence to be at my service for twenty
four hours. L give you the frst offer, :
Sir"
Mr.. Clinton replied that really he
had so many irons ir the ERE, that tweu-
ty-four hours"
Meadows put fifty pound note on
the table" T.
~will all your irons iron you oai ffly
pounds as fiat as that r
Why, hem?j
mo, nor five. Come, Sir, sharp is
the word. Can you be my servant for
twenty-four hours, for fifty pounds yes
or mop
"Why, this is dramatic-yes -
at is half-past two. Between this and
four o'clock / must buy few hundred
acres in Australia a fair bargain" |
Humphl Well, that can be done.
know an old fellow that has land in
every part Of the globe
Take me to him"
In ten minutes they we're in one Of
those dingy, narrow alleys in the city Of
London that look the abode Of decent
poverty, and they could afford to buy
lGrosvenor Square for their stables; and
Mr.. Clinton introduced his friend to a
blear-eyed merchant in a large room pa
Ipered with maps the windows were in
crusted, mustard and cress might have
been grown from them. Beauty in clean
linen collar and wristbands would have
shone here with intolerable luste but
/ the blear-eyed merchant did not come out
| bright by contrast; he had taken the
: local color. You could see him, and that
: was all, Ike a partridge in a furrow a
: snuf-colored man coat rusty, all but the
= collar, and that greasy; poor as its color
f was, his linen had thought II worth emu
lating; blaekish nails, cotton wipe, little
blad place on head, but didn't shine fol
the same reason the windows didn't
Mr.. Clinton approached this dhirrty
: money this rusty coin, in the spirit o
a iunkeyism.
i "Sir," said be in a low, reyerentia
g tone /" this party is disposed to purehas'
n a few hundred acres in the colonies
$ Mr.. Rich looked up from his desl
II and pointed with sweep Of his pen t
J the walls"
e There are the maps; the red crosse
], are my land. They are numbered Re
Sc fer to the margin Of map and you wi
find the acres and the latitude aud long
/ tude calculated 10 a fraction. Whe
you have settled in what part Of th
o world yon buy, come TO me again tim
III is gold
+" And the blear-eyed merchant wrot
" and sealed, and fled, and took notice
sc his customers. They found red crosse
in several of the United States, in G
NADIA, jn Borneo, in nearly all the col
: nies. and as luck would have IT, the
found one small cross within thirty mill
:. of Bathurst, and the margin described
as five hundred acres. Mr. Meadov
stepped toward the desk"
Il have found a small property ne
Bathurst"
i Bathurst? where is that r
40 In Australia"
Suit"
"If the price suits. What is the pri'
4. 4. sir?9
IN The books must tell as that"
Dir. Rich stretched oui bis arm a
nay seized ledger and gave It Meadows" I"
gh- / have bat one price for lsad, a
that is G,e per cent. profit on ny ouil'
IN Book viii tell you what it stands me !
add five per cent to that, and take
- land away or leave H."
with this curl explanation, Dir. z
le- resumed bis work
,m- 1t seems you gave GAe shillings
"a acre, Sir" said Clinton. Five ia
jav Hundred shillings, one hundred and tv
~. lty-lire pounds. Interest al ive per c,
nan six pounds Eve"
n 50 When did ! buy ii r. asked
Rich.
Oh, when did yoa buy il, Sir r
-, Air. Rich snatehed the isook q i
~ lpestislsly and gave ii to Meadow
You make the calculation" said
the figures are 81 there- Come 10
!; !, shea you have made it.'
!. The Land bad been boogli taef
seven years and sons months ago.
,y.. Meadows made The eaieulatl0a ia = !
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