New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-21

staid yet so awake to all the doings of tho
4 world. His father, in spite of his absence
from chapel, and his presence in a new very
high church, where he could leave before
the sermon, looked upon him with higt
favor.
Reach, on his part, coached his father W
on the state of the funds; and had he ad
vised PilkertOn would have saved him from
his losses. When the D. D 3 congregation
upon the conclusion of a ministry of TWEEN
ty years, presented him with silver tea
pot and 500 sOvereigns, Reach took his
father aside, made him spend all the 900 il
Egyptians and in two months after sell
out at a premium, which made him six into
eight Then he split the eight into two
parts and divided them equally between
Russians" and Turks" both went up, the
first tie more rapidly, and when DR. StOkel
thought fit to retire Reach congratulated
the pater, as he called him, upon having a
neat little thou pet abbreviatton with
city men for a thousand.
"YOu were quite right to sell Just before
dividends, pater. Egyptians don't stand
quite so well ex div"
Il don't touch the interest" said old
Stoker; lit smacks of usurV.'
"Quite right, sir" said Reach, pairing his
nails II VIII tell you always when to sell
out, and when to buy in" "Why not p he
whispered to himself; ut will come to me
some day"
So Reach StOker, Esq, rising at his bank,
and beloved at home, prospered with every
body except Polly PilkertOn.
The reason was not far to seek.
Almost every evening, except on those
of the music lessons, young Benjamin Man
sell, who also sat under the great Stoker
and made his boots, came round Ostensibly
to talk about the leather market and the
price of skins, but in reality to look at Pol
! ~ PilkertOn. Old Manseu and old Pilker-
ton were bOyhoOd's friends; but the sad.
| der cOnsOrtlng with a higher class of
| customers, had learned to look down on
the boOtmaker.
! In his line" Manseu was as good a work
! man as Pilkert0n; so there could be no rea-
son for this show of pride But when has
| pride reasOn2 Old Manseu, thoughtful
man, like his son and bOotmakers in gen
eral, smoked his pipe, thought that his
friend showed a stiff upper lip and said
nothing. Young Mansell, on the contrary,
felt the slight, and would have resented it.
but he was over head and ears in love with
Polly. Love makes man swallow a good
deal. Ben thought that he was not fine
enough, and, therefore, improved himself
both mentally and as far as bodily adorn-
ment went. He was a fine, manly Young
fellow, thoughtful and Observant and deter
mined to win his way. He did not take a
bad way to do it. Polly observed his i'm
ing perception Of women when they are
themselves concerned. down to the right
cause and liked him all the better for it,
Il can't think why you encourage that !
young shoemaker, Polly ~
HE is bOOtmaker, father, and we are
but saddler5'
"Bootmakers and sheemakers are all the |
same-'snObsn said old PiIkertOn, bit |
terly. The loss Of his money had made |
him very cynical. and his darling wish was
to marry his daughter to a man who |
was not only rich but above his own sta
ton in life.
"Snob or not, said Polly. coloring at the
insult, he is more polite to you than Mr..
. Both were thinking of the same person
at the time.
"Ah that is a man, - said PiIkerton, with
gustO. Hes sure to rise in the world"
Il hope he will said Polly, tossing her
head. That same evening she Consoled
young Ben by going out to walk with him.
round Russell Square and down by what
old PiIkertOn called the "Fondlng." She
had will of her own, this Polly.
" IaInt quite proper place for a young
lady to walk, it's so lonely" said her father.
Law and you and mother used to 90 \
counting round there when London wasn't
half so full, said Polly, with a laugh hold
ing up her face for her father to kiss. Il
can take care of myself, and Ben and |
have walked and talked together since we
were ten He's 50 clever and so fond of
poetry, and tells me such pretty things"
This was true. Ben was an enthusiast:
he never talked of himself, but when he
lad read some noble book or pOem-and | ,
le was alwas readIng-and spotted it out
% Polly. Sometimes the people thought T
he young couple quarreling They had
lot come to that yet; they had not even T
made love.
But if Ben had puzzled his long head for
week-and he was no fOOl-he could not =
ave hit upon better way to catch Polly !
When he reeIted, in his grave tones and q
lanIy voice, and his good reading-taught q
Im more by his own heart than bv the :
Penny Elocutionist he took in and the .
uaTter he spent at a Mechanics Institute
locutIOn Class-POlly insensiblv connected 81
erseH with the heroine, and Ben, as the Z
eareSt male creature at hand as the hero, =
nd her pretty eyes turned on his, often
with dewy tears under the gas f
mps. All those happy autumn walks a
Apply Russell square happy "F0undling!" "
len so appropriately named. Il saw, O.
en-, said Polly, taking hold of his arm SO O
oseIy that it made him SILVER delightfully."-. h
tell me more about the Particulars N
aughter when Mildred won't have him. q,
ID she's IN love with him all the time, you n
It, Ben ?" ' s 20
g No, Polly; how can l think 50 when YOU
le all the points so well They are not
lpid. They think with their hearts" Or
- That's why they break them so often, K
ting them to an improper purpose. But lz1
n, If a Miss Mldred-wasn t it Mildred a
ected you on your being a-a-not pa- or
2lan, you knoW-what should you do, an
q " ~
should break mine, Polly, if | loved ba
as [ can love" X
How is that ?" said Polly. with q III
gned funny little laugh. fai
With all my mind, with all nv heart. we
with all my soul -here he gave PoIIv's cir
I, quite mechanically on his part, a ire lo15
ldOns squeeze, and the same delicious vo
yer ran through her frame - " and nv ga1
ghbOr asjmyself," said Ben. That's in I'm
church cateChism, which DR.. Stoker I
aches against, Polly" -
Is it " said Polly, "The tone of her VIZ Il
'e was strangely altered Gracious 4bo
'es ten o'clock, Ben How late it Is! LIZ LIZ
at will poor father saw" WI
'mehow, Polly felt rather guilty that e gT
hun
tloT
le old saddler worked away at his con- "
{ early and late, and took so much two
BILE that each saddle was indeed fur q
ed ''as per sample Seven hundred his
fifty saddles take good deal of work %
leather, and work and leather have to MOI
aid for. up.
kertOn was too proud to unburden ."
elf to Moses, Macbeth & Co., and it the
d have been of little use had he done wan
he followed a well known custom and Il
3 use of a little paper Instrumental "Wl
lie slang of Mr.. Reach Stoker, "few a Sa
drawing upon his old friend ManseII. at