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and pities you smoke. I wouldn't fI were
you

rainy day on London bridge, bringing will
them their checkered range of joys ant
sorrows, ana SUCCESSES and revorses. The
scene now shifts to a commercial room IN the
Eagle and Crown, at market town some
nifty miles from the metropolis There sal
| q party oil commercial travellers at supper
discussing, while they did Justice to the good
'are, as is their wont the credit and resources
OF various houses in the different lines OF bust
ness with which they were connected.
"What lucky fellow, by the way said
on ono OF the party, after the merits OF a great
Manchester warehouse man had been can
yassod. "that Mark Anderson has been all
his life "a very lucky fellow" rejoined
another and third re-echoed the remark.
"Do you think so gentlemen ~ asked a
fourth-an elderly man, who had hitherto
borne no part in the rather "free and easy
conversation of the evening
There can be no doubt of it Mr. W., |
should think responded the first speaker
Not doubt OF it. said the second like
wise. it was all luck, depend upon 1t"
"lle began with nothing-nothing to
speak OF" continued the former-"but old
Cameron took fancy to him, and now .you
see the old gentleman retres from the firm,
and leaves Mark Anderson at the head Of
I've
"And, rejoined the third commercial, all
began, as | We been told, by young Anderson
happening to have an umbrella, and saving
Mr.. G. from getting wetting one evening.
A lucky thing. that. | think | shall take
to carrying an umbrella fine days as well as
wet Ones"
"That wasn't quite all, | believe re-
sponded number one, she came over the old
gent by Ginning in with his humors, and
finding out the length OF his foot. a clever
fellow Mark Anderson is fancy. But there
was bit of sneaking about him. That and
good luck did it ALL
"Ah! heard that Cameron cottoned to
the young fellow at first, because of his name
1t was IA Scotch sort of sound you know !;
and Anderson's father, or grandfather, was
Scotchman. So it was "Highlanders
shoulder to shoulder you know. A lucky
think to have a fine sounding name some
times. Poor Jack Smith might have told
his name fifty times, and nobody would have
thought anything about it,
"a lucky thing for Mr.. Anderson to leave
off smoking as he did. He took his cue
there famously. That was what nailed old
Cameron, suspect. A lucky thought that"
''Well, gentlemen" said Mr.. W, when
there was slight break in the conversation,
yOu ll'bNc lluu yOuE Sdy tDDul 4hIs 1Auucl-
son, and you all seem to know more or less
of his history but you must excuse me for
thinking you are wrong in ascribing his
prosperity to what you call luck. There is
more than that in it. think"
"Of course, Mr.. W." replied one Of the
former speakers 1--WE don't mean that Mr..
Anderson isn't clever and shrewd, and all
that sort of thing that helps man on in
the world; it was his first start, mind you,
that we said was so lucky"
"Mr W., does not believe in luck, per-
haps,' observed another of the company.
'No don't" said Mr.. W., 'Luck is
heathcnish word, and the idea it generally
conveys is a heathcnish idea: But we need
not dispute about words. What mean is.
that Mr. Anderson first start, as you call
it, was owing to something with which luck
had nothing to do.'
"1ou know Mr. Anderson, perhaps Z?
yes, rather intimately, ana IL tel you
what know oil his rise IN the world, II you
like; lew words Will 90 IT,
''By all means, MIR. w., SAID one OF the
other speakers.
I'm the hrst place then, what nrst attract-
ed MIR. Cameron notice IN young Ander-
son, was his good temper and readiness to
obllge stranger VINO had pehaVed 10 MN
eiusIiiy anu selnehiy' Ahoii i,o' ,"o''"S 5
was on the top OF the stage coach
yes, have heard OF that.
"Weli, then, you Will admit that had An
derson given his fellow passenger as goou as
| he had sent, to use common expression
their acquaintance would probably nave emu.
ed where 1t began. 80 should say ina,
good temper rather than luck, was the first
step towards MIR. Anderson s prosperity
"There's something in that, to be sure
MIR. w."
"Ihen there was degree OF KINDNESS
somewhat seii-denying IN the oner OF TN
umbrella when Cameron and Anderson came =. :
IN each others way the second time III II
not every young man wouiu nave gone ou
oil ms way to opiige a common acquaintance
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ouaintance. Mr.. Cameron discovered tha
his Young protece, as may call him, was
GOOD SON and-notwithstandi his unfoI
tnnate nenchant for cipars-dida a good dc,
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