The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-08
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MY GRANDFiTHER'S WATCH.

IHAD been less than three months in
New York, and if | was not actually al
ready in love ] was quite ready 10 affirm
AS much, if fitting occasion should be
given me. Moreover, with worldly wis
dom beyond my years, had suffered my
young affections to go out toward no less
a parsonage than Miss De Silver, the
bankers daughter. Fortune and my
aunt's respec' ability had even so far aided
me that felt myself al liberty, with a
little extra courage, to call on her even at
her own lordly home.
The determination to call was thing
by itself, however, as an examination of
my wardrobe revealed the unpleasant fact
that my present supplies would hardly ar
ray me in keeping with what might there
be expected. Solomon could have beaten
sne entirely. So could the lilies of almost
any valley.
My slender salary as Yet offered me no
resources, nor would il for another month
was at my wits end, or tbereabouts,
when an idea struck me- The ChersOns
were ALWAYS fertile in ideas, and was not
/, Richard, the heir of all the ChersOns ,
And had not inherited my grandfather's
watche Did it not, even then, tick drow-
silly in its swollen fob?
Now this chrOnOmeter was of the an
cient style; made in day when the pre-
ciOus metals seem to have been of no &C
count whatever 1t was sort OF gold
mine, with time piece hidden away in
the heart of it. Small it may 6e for a
gold mine, but decidedly large for a watch.
It was one Of those watches which imp8rt
an air of antique aristocracy to old gentle
men with good clothes, and affected by
them for the same reason that the "shab-
Il he g.
old furniture
"Sell it9" No. Oy no means; but
thought of Miss De Silver, and of her IA
ther, and determined 10 employ it as a
collateral: could redeem it at any time
Some one had explained To me the mean
ing of "three golden balls together" and
/ forthwith sailed out that evening to
search for the dangling arms of the old
Lombard usurers.
They were cOnspicuously large and
bright over the door To which they attract
ed me, bu: the musty old gentleman in a
square velvet cap, who took my gold mine
in his fat and dirty fingers, did not realize
my ideal of a Lombard. From the ap-
pearance of the crowded shelves around
him, however, he was clearly prepared to
realize on anything else Such 8 museum
of incongruous c0mmodities [ had never
sssen before. Surely he was a social
fwrocker, aud these were the spols and
waits of innumerable human craft that
saad gone ashore upon the shoals of New
York life. Describe them? No, for Ian
guage has limits to its powers, and so has
even imagination
was not the first customer attended to,
however, for fair young girl before me
was waiting anxiOusly while "Ey uncle"
tntlance0 nd yE.,f Cd To ho
brooch of sonee be1uty and value
Thought that 1t contained tress of dark
hair that or something else of the keep
sake kind.
"Ten dollar? Not so mosh as dat Five
dollar ish all /"
"ODly five dollars? Why. it is worth
forty, and must have at least tent"
." "Musht' is pig vord, my tear gives
you but five"
The girls face was very pale, and her
thin lips closed with an expression almost
of agony, as she sighed her final assent to
the amount of the proposed loan. Her
TICKET was quickly made out, and could
but note as she turned to- go out with that
and the money grasped tightly in her lit
tie hand, that Tor all her paleness and her
SORROW she was indeed fair, very fair.
How mOsi you Want on dis yatch?"
The harsh and grating voice of "mv
uncle did much TO dispose OF a certain
,ingling sensation, as of many bushes,
with which had passed under the golden
balls. therefore boldly replied
About a hundred, ] reckon"
a hundard dollar? On, veil, that ish
nonsense. We only lends so mosh as
twenty live. Dat ish de law, my poy."
Bother the lawr'
so shay 1t bodders me veri mosh
indeed, but dosh not ever break de law.
How shall | work it then? There
must be some way"
Dare ish many ways, but dish concern
minds de law. dell you-I lets Won have
twenty Ave on de watch and twenty five
on de chain p
"That won't make it up"
"Den takes dc chain for de twentv
five, an you takes de watch to de diamond
brokers
few moments conversation hayipe
further enlightened me rs to the meanins
of my uncle" the Lombard, l took my