The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-09-17

has a glass OF rum-anu-MulcI odCNt anu
Won know how the time slips away when
old friends meet rs has long been parted.
Dave had so much to tell me about Birm- |
ingham gun barrels, and / had so much !
TO tell Dave about Clcrkenwell watch !
springs, and one thing followed another,
including glasses of rum-and-water, that
II WAS a quarter to eight in no time. IL
was no use; | couldn't get TO Welbeck
street in "A quarter of an hour unless i
took cab, and it tdidnt seem natural like
TO take a cab to go to a savings bank with
three pounds ten; so l stopped with Dave,
and had another glass.
When / went home and told Susan, she
didn't say an angry word, but just re-
marked that was very unlucky. You
don't know how aggravating Susan is in
that way. I'd rather have tongue'pie a
GOOD deal, than that sit-and-say-nOthing,
butthink- k-the-mOre way others. It's more
aggravating than saying the thing right
out. for YOU can'ttell what an awful char
acter quiet woman thinks you are. For
my part, I'd rather have teacups. How
ever, / was resolved to show Susan that
| was in earnest, and on the following
Tuesday got to the bank in good time. |
didn't find it such an easy matter though,
to put my money away, even now when
was there with it in my hand. There
was so many people in the bank that there
was no getting near the counter for full
quarter of an hour; and when ut last !
did get to it, the clerks didn't seem in
clined to take any notice of me. Two or
three times / said to one of them that
wanted to put in three pound ten,
but he paid no attention and always
turned to somebody else. An old wo-
man with half crown cut me out
first, and then | was elbOwed aside by
charity boy with Il shilling all in
coppers. They were regular custom
ers, and used to the banking business,
suppose, and wasn't. However, | got
it in at last and received my book, and |
do assure you felt load taken off my
mind. When / showed the book to Su
san, she said, "That's right, George, and |
hope you'll go on with it," fully intend
ed to do so then; but it's easy to intend
but not 80 easy to carry your intendings
out. It's like sitting over fire on a
winters night, and saying, "Ell get up
early tomorrow morning and do over
timer but when the morning comes, and
you peep out between the clothes and
see the frost on the windows, it's very
easy to find an excuse for lying a little
longer.
The eveningsong and the morningsong
don't often agree. SO it was with my
saving. had always pretty lively rec
ollection of the trouble it was to walk all
the way to Welbeck street after my days
work, and then to have TO push my way
through crowd of old women, and wait
nv turn at the counter. It's not worth
doing for a few shillings, | used to say to
myself; I'll wait until there's more Of it,
and then put it in lump. So | put the
shillings away in the drawer until such
time as they should grow to be pounds;
but owing to the key being always handy
didn't; and what with club nights and
sprees now and then, it never came to be
enough to be worth taking down to Wei
beck street. When Christmas time came,
all the money | had in the bank was the
three pound ten | first put in. However,
that was something, and / was rather
short just then, it would come handy to
get the Christmas extras. Three days
before Chriitmas went down to the bank
to draw the money out, promising Susan
to come straight home with il. You may
Judge how mad | was, when the clerk
told me that | couldn't draw the money
without giving q weeks notice. Here
was pretty go; Susan ut home waiting
for the money to get in the tea and sugar,
the plums and currants, and what not,
and the cash not to be got until after
christmas. This sort of saving wont
"suit me- says 70 myself; there's too
much ceremony about it." had to bor-
row the money from one of my mates to
get the Christmas dinner. and at the end
of the week drew my money out Of
Welbeck-street, and paid him back and
that was the end ofmy account at that
saving bank.
Next year, Susan belonged to pudding
club at the groccr's, and | belonged to Il
goose-club at the yorkshire Grey" We
began to pay in siXpencc 4 week very
shortly after Midsummer; and, few
days before Christmas, Susan brought
home Il parcel of groceries, and | got
goose, and a bottle of gin, and bottle of
rum. We didn't miss the money paid
every week in sixpences, and when the
things came home they seemed like Il gift.
l said to Susan that | thought this was
better than putting money in the savings
bank, where there was so much Ceremo-
ny, and Susan thought so too. But when
Susan's brother, John, who is a cashier
ut large linendraper's, came to dinner
on Christmas day, and we told him how
we had been saving, he burst out a-laugh-
ing. What are you laughingat" says.
"What am laughing at? he says, al-
most choking himself with u mouthful of
goose-"why at you" "What for?" /
says For beingso jolly green" " he says.
"JOlly greenw says; "is it Jolly green
TO lay by money for rainy day?-least-
ways, for Christmas day, when family
requires extras?" "Fiddlesticksw John
says. "Letm ask question, George"
"Twenty,"I says; go ahead, John"
"Well," he says, when did you begin TO
pay into the goose-club tn the 'YOrkshise
Grey?" "At Midsummer" says. "And
you paid in sixpence every week for
twenty-six weeks?" "Yes,,' l says. II
did" (which made thirteen shillings,
George?" Exactly" | says. well"
he says, lis the goose and the liquor
worth it?" Judge for yourself, John,"
| says. Gould ! have bought such
goose as that you are now partaking of
forless than eighty-and-six in the shops?"
INC" he says, 81 don't think you could"
every well" says, "where's your fiddle
sticks, and how do you make me out iol-
ly green?" "Why, this way, George"
he says: ain the first place, you've been
losing the interest upon your money for
six months" That's not much," says
"No," he says, perhaps not; but that is
not all. I'll be bound TO say, George, if
you'll only be candid enough to confess
it, that every time you went to the York
shire Grey to pay in sixpence to the
gOose-club, you had a glass ofsomething?"
Il don't deny it," says; "you can't well
go to a public-house without having a
glass" "SOmetimeg tWon he saws