The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-09-06

little capital into TINS business or that
one, which was coming gold, / should
soon fill my pockets
"kf it rains soup, and you've no
spoon, what odds it it to you,' says the
old provcrb.
Finally / determined to become II
real estate agcnt, l got Il license and
an office, hung out my shingIc, and ad-
vertiscd My friends put some places
into my hands for sale, aud ! waited
for purchasers, They were slow in
coming, and waiting was rather dull
work.
Twas too eager for business to read.
| sa. impatiently fretting a week or so,
my only amusement gazing curiously
ut the swift whirl Of business men past
my window, all with calculating brows
and faces full of wori---or taking con-
stitutionals, and coming back to see
my lonely office boy, undisturbed by
callers, turning torlorn summcrsctts on
the window s.ll.
Ishould have gone distracted with
this solitary confinement, if two fat wo.
men exhibitors had not pitched their
tabernaclcs in my neighborhood, Large
paintings Of the rival beauties stretched
along the house fronts, Haunting def
ancc in each others faces, and chaIlon.
ging The public to comparison of their
charms. BetJrc one house Il band
played that popular and suggestive
tune, "Root Hog or Dic;' while the
rival musicians walled out glove Not" "
in supcrhuous warning to all gazers
upon the charmor within. These tunes,
alternated with Yankee Doodle by both
bands, made day and night ridiculous
SO still could laugh.
Ny friends dropped n--now anC
then-but did not stay long had ne
wine, cigars, or sporting intelligence t'
give them. They found me very
slow, poor fellows.
A month passed My office rent be-
came due--my boys wages--my land
Iady's and waShcr-woman's bills. Nc
help for it, my watch must go--and il
went Another month My book,
must go-and they went. Another
month My wardrobe must suffer-
and il suffered Another month, and
was as much like Il hand dog, as a MAJ
can be, and keep his hat on his head
Mine was just balanced, and that wa
all, so dciectcdIy low did | hold my
gloomy countcnancc
But after all was sold that | coul
| possibly part with, and had got owe
that chaiering business, looked II
again, and cooked my hat rs usual,
got my landlady to move up to the ga'
ret, | dockcd off two meals = day.
did we'll enough with one
| also let out half my Office to anOli
er poor fellow who could not afford t
rent one. lie WAS only able to pay abou
quarter the rent Of mine; so, to max
all S,unrn Ln tnnl. my ntIirn hny's UI
ties, and that valiant hunter was dr
missed, not without tears on his part.
l got to eXtremtes at last; slept i
my Office in as much ofa bed as couI
be made out Of my coat and a felt ha
About twelve cents day nouriShc
me.
Jnou;rias ,hout tLo nroncrtv ha
far s,lo c,m, orrosionollv. But wha
id,,sthev had, Mr.. \ held hi
,,,co,t tyolve Thousand (wortb 81
ros.ihIv : and wonldn't take a cent les,
Mr. RI wanted if tcrribIv-woul
,,;ro ,,roo thou.ond for il NOT = cen
mara 7 hctwoau thcm-fr,ntic +
n,or,o, .,I, and ro,I;v, - c,,nmis.io
ovho,.,oJ oror,r,w.r or mind or
bodv in pcrsuosion without cTec,ino
oot,,,.,,,;,o ,1,. roo, o,,,,,,,s hnl
on, and continue TO do 50 to this da,
...,..., r. ..,,t,, d, o,,o,,,
who now h,vo thcm ON hand
; One o,orion. dav effected an c,
chance ,r two prope.ties Nv pah
itched for my commission, which Mi
D. ,v,s bv agreement to po,
1t was an iusirnifcant one to be sur,