Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-25

get alputf Yet they certainly dpp'Lrut
ON castefs, as young M Mul Elm {Witlrhis wal
let chained about bis waist, might have
assured you. If you have an eye fol
rosy boys, dare say you have seen him.
and II you have observed him, arms up
hands clinched, running on a sort of dog
trot, so as always to keep pace will
the car or stage. in which you were rid
ing, why then you have, seen the
g dodge. 2 There are lines on which Q
boy of determination may keep neck
andneck with the horses. On such lines
Mullen pocketed the fare and ran the
route. There are lines that defy the best
breatnedf runners" On these, rs a boy
OF eIonor, Mullen rode. He reported
himself to the house among the earliest
| Of the runners, and nevertheless aver
aged thirty cents day by the dodge
There are six days in the week, 6x30-
$1.S0. 1t lacks six weeks of Christmas
tide 6xl .80-$10S0.
But
The world is under the reign of laws
| and the Mullen household was under {
law, of necessity, that, do what they
| would, was sure to levy a tax of, say
thirty cents on every fifty cents amassec
by the dodge" for matches, soap
After the eleventh or eighth" collision
between the claw" and the dodge" il
certainly occurred to Mamma Mullen
that things looked diseouraging; and she
sighed. But the young inventor went
sturdily on, with a pluck and an undi
mipished faith in the virtues of the
dodge, quite delightful TO see.
The little womanl Such a very little
woman She was preparing to go into
| trade--in orange-peel and old newspa
pers-when, she could find no buyer
People do buy such things somewhere
you know.
r- - CHAPTER-VI fe ~.
MARKET.woMAN- AND DAVID
r SIMPLE SUMS.
And now you are waiting to hear
Mamma Mullein's business-that is, il
you want to hear anything about it.
trust 1t shall not shock you. She was a
market-woman; not that she brought
eggs and butter and fruit to market
Had she done that she might have been
rose-woman instead of a MULLEN
woman, and this story could never have
been written. But there are so many
sorts of fmarkets--as. u a)market where
| your nice fresh IDEAS will bring fair
price, Oftthis order of ,rnarket-woman
was Mamma Mullen. She was liable to
ideas. There are some people who re-
gard such person with suspicion, but
though desirous to please all readers,
must give my personages as | find them.
Ideas are often good for checks, but they
more frequently stamp the man or
woman subject to them as dangerous
The world is like Saul. 1t accepts the
thought, whether in writing, marble
pottery, painting, politics, warfare,
preaching, Inventions, no matter what,
as the Hebrew King did Goliath's head
But it. never forgiyes the David II
"eyes" him; from that time out look out
for javelinsl l beg pardon, l have
shunted the story off the track; but only
20 show you how Mamma Mulleinl some
times made money and sometimes fail
ures.
Two and two make four. You see, o.
course, that Mamma Mullen, who WIS
already in the habit of conveying idea
to market, was specially ~desirous-of a
brisk holiday business, and wrote night
and day to. secure not two but dozen
strings to her bow: Thus: For the Pop
the Excelsior Carol" For the Cdignon,
three appropriate articles. For the
Workstand "A Little Preach About Ba-
bies." For the HatfdtOH a Review"
For the Kaleidoscope the prose version
of THE Cow Jumped Over the Moon
Then she figured it out, thus:
Three appropriate articles at $l5 each. 5 45 90
Working ldyl. go. II....! ....t.....,...i % 0O
Saroli. 10 40 ~ ~
Resis% FfSasS about bnDieY ilI. Is IS CO CO
Cow that Jumped Over the Moon :t.!..' 30 OO
Lsas,.. gs--- we Bon sis9 % %
Quiggs. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IL 90
Haggs. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 20 90
-L.r--w r1 e. b 80. ~
BalAnce., =. .s..- -. -, 90. Sof W
to be expended for winter sclothing, and
for the Christmas-rose-ten dollars might
be spared for that; and there was that
two dollars, you know"
After this calculation Mamma Mullen