Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-07-09
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MY GRANDFAFHER,s wATcH.

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HAD 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 respectability had even so far aided
me that felt myself at 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
} me entirely. SO could the lilies of almost
any valley.
My slender salary as yet offered me no
resources, nor would it for another month
! was at my wits end, or thereabouts,
when an idea struck me. The Chersons
were always fertile in ideas, and was not
/, Richard, the heir of all the Chersons 7
And had not inherited my grandfather's
watch? Did it not, even then, tick drow-
silly in its swollen fobg
Now this chronometer was of the an.
cient style; made in a day when the pre-.
Cious metals seem to have been of no &C
count whatever. It was sort of gold
mine, with time piece hidden away in
the heart of it. Small it may be for a
gold mine, but decidedly large for a watch
1t was one of those watches which impart
an air of antique sristocracy to old gentle.
men with good clothes, and affected by
fNN q tloa NI.nN q Gta1,.
by genteel" families purchase only fine
old furniture.
"Sell it," No, by no means; but
thought of Miss De Silver, and of her ia.
ther, and determined to 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
l 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, but the musty old gentleman in q
square velvet cap, who took my gold mine
in his fat and dirty fingers, did not realize
my ideal of Lombard. From the ap
pearsnce of the crowded shelves around
him, however, he was clearly prepared to
realize on anything else. Such museum
of incongruous commodities | had never
seen before Surely he was a sociaI
wrecker, and these were the spoils aud
waits of innumersble human craft that
had gone ashore upon the shoals of New
YORK life. Describe tbemP No. for Ian
ouage has limits 10 its noyers and 40 ha,
even imagination.
however, for a fair Young girl before me
was waiting anxiouslv while "mv upcIe'
balanced in his hand what seemed To he s
brooch of some beauty and yalue
thought that it contained tress of darI
hair that or Something else of the keep
sake Kind
"Ten dollar r? Not so mosh as dat Fiy,
dollar ish all"
WOnIv five dollarsp Vhv IL ia wortl
forty and 1nust have at least tent"
TMusht' is a MO word. nv tear 7 Give
YOU hut i've" - -
The girl's fare was vary ,ale and he
thin Iins closed with an cxnressIon a1mos
of agony. az she sighed her final assent Il
the smount of the proposed loan. He
ticket was Quickly made out and I coult
but note as she turned to 90 out with tina
and the money orasned tiShtlv in her III
tie hand that for all ber nale1ess and he
SORROW she wac indeed fair verv fair
mHow m6sh Won vant on d;s vatch ~
Tha bsrah and oratinr voica of @ ~,
uncle dill much 10 dis5ose of a cartai;
t;ngling sensation as nf many FINISHES
ovith u6;oh had nassed under ibe roIde,
halls 7 therefore boldIv renIied
"a Ahout a hundred 7 Tecknnn
s rsrG1a bnndard dollsr9 On we'll that 10
noroanse We onIv lands so nnosh q
t,yantp-tive Nat ish Do Low ,,,, noUn
R0ther tbe Isww HO''
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