Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-04-21
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The first nosiss that sas sstss ;of n.
vhsn ! I'eesssssi down. "-sesesA " xasAy
q agcntlemsn. who sald he vas an a Scs,
sor, and connected With United States
IntSrnsl Revenue Department. ara i
had never hesrd ef h;sa bas;sessh sefsrc.
but / sas vary glad to see sAin, ali the
same-vould he sit DOM Z lie "a. dsya.
I did not know anything particular %
say. and yet I felt that pcopie Who have
srfivod a. ths diKaisy q vkcstAax an0us.
must b cSocsr,aAiDsaDVtDuss Be sasy, ana
socsahls in cs>nany.--,So. in aefaul. as
anything else TO say. / asked him if he
was epeuins his shop iu our ne;sahor-
hood.
He said he VAS. Ct lid not wish To
appear ienarant. hut rad hoped he would
mention wha. he hsd for sals.) .a -F
veutured % ask him ..hsw Vas trader
and be said. "S,-so."
then said We would drop in. AMI i!
We liked bis house as we'll as any other.
re would give him our custom. afr .aa
He said he thcaeht we would ike his
establishment nell enough 10 COZ. d 10 our
selves to it--said he never saw ANYBODY
who. wouli 60 of and hunt up another
msn ID his line after ,radin: with him
otcc 8 sE~ v-@-.-r~ - s hfs
That sounded very c,mp'acen.. bu.
barring that natural expression OF villa;ny
Which we all have, tho man loaksl hon.
est enough. --.-.s. -.
lido not tnow how il came about cx-
actly. bu. gradually ". appeared to mex
down and run together, cUnversa, sa,ina'ly '
speaking, and shcu everything w.ut along
comfortably as clock-work. 4-.al
talked. and taxed, and talked-at
least I did. And We laughed. and Ian ~
ed. and laughed-at least ne did, Bu.
all the time I had ny presence Of mind
about me-1 had my native shrewdncss
turned on ''full head," rs the engineers
cay. was determined to fud out a,,
about hi. business in spite Of his obscure
answers. and was determined T would
have i, out Of him without his suspec,ing
uhat l was at. meant TO trap him with
. deep, deep rue. I would tell him oil
about my own business. and he would
natural SO warm to me duriug this Sc
ductive burst Of confidence that he would
tell me all about his affairs before he sus-
pectcd what I was about I thought to
myself. my son, you little know what
an old fox you are dealing with.
said a,..-..- --... ....
':Now you never would guess what I
made lec,uripg this Winter and last
Spring.
"No-dcn't believe I could to save me.
Let me see-let me see. Abou. two
thousand dollars. may Re? But MONO,
sir,, / know You couldn't have made that
much. Say seventeen hundred, may be?'
"Ha-ha knew you couldn't My
lecturiDs receipts for last Spring and this
Winter we're fourteen thousand, seven
hundred City dollars-whst do you think
of.that T. .ry-.sp>rs ~,-- 80
"Why. it is amasing-perfestly amas.
ing. will make urte Of il. And you
say even this wssn't all y tas - 4.
"Al? Why bless you there WY my
income from tho Buffalo Express for FOUR
months-about-abo what should
ycu say TO about eight thousand dollars,
for instance :" = e. S. T
"Say! Why I should like 10 see my
self rolling in Just such another ocean Of
afnuence. Eight thousand. Ill make
note Of il. Why, man and on topofa all
this an to understand that you b I'd still
more income T. ,......-- .......-.,.r r-
"Ha-ta-hai Why, you're only in the
suburbs Of it, 90 10 speak. yThers's my
hook. THE Innocehts Abroad'-price
S3 so TO IS. sccortiing to binding. Zig
ten to me- Look we in the eye. Du.
| ring the last four months and half. say
ing nothing Of the sales before that-but
Just simply during the four months and a
half ending March Is. 1870. We sold niue-
ty-6ve thousand {! Think of it. Average
four dollars copy. say liza nearly four
hiudred thousand dollars, my soa. / get
ball.
"The suffering Mosesi I'll set tia.
down. Observation-Disclosures
hundred. Total. say-well, uron nv
word. the grand total Is about two hah1
dred and thirteen or fourteen THOUSAND
dollars. l. tha. possible p
possible = II there's any mistake, is
the other way. Two hundred and feur-.
tern saeusswd. cssh. 10 my income for
this year ii l know hos TO cipher" Ia
Thea the gentleman gosl1p 70 90. ID
came over ne most nncsmfartably tia.
may be that I had made uny revelations
tot nothing. tesiacs being d,ttered into
<rescAing sHem so~sidefaSiv ~ ne
s.sauces'nastosislua e.sh aiiossx b -
IA = At ihs !ssssnos.sss .tte esa,lsaaw
handed me 4 large envelopc. and. said il
cont sinel lis advertisement aud that
r w5uli 'ndd ON sii sSout his business "a
il. 81 &C v'fs g.aa SIS. snr1 ssFT0uw
Az spon ashe va. ecNs I epeued his
advertisement. studied it asteutivcIy.
for four minutes. sLen called mp the,
cook and said :,
; Hold me While I faint. Let Maria
turn the baster-eaksa."
by asd b.. yhen / came. TOO. L sent
down TO the rum min on the corner md
hired a srtist BY the week TO sie up
mssUs6d enss th.s stssa essy aua ,eiss
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