The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-09

yertisement or mt a salesrOOm, or maybe
out Of n pawnbroker'a shop.
But I'VE had plenty Of honest people
70 deal with, too them as have come
traightforward and told me they
ouIdp't keep up their payments, ana
,gkcd nae 10 take their machine back,
yben I'd allow them as mnch ~ !
,bougbL fair. and 'twOuld be an end Oh
a pleasant transaction.
THE way I've been bitten though by
ome folks has made me that case
gardened. that sometimes I've wondered
yhcther I'd pot any heart left, and the
yife's lGd TO interfere, telling me I've
Drcn spoiled with prosperity and
grown %unfeeling,
IT was she made mo give way about
Ruth, for one day, after having had my
p"ristlcs all set ny by finding ont that
| thrce good sound machines, by best
makers, had gone nobody knew where,
yho should come into the shop but a
| '~idy.IOokinp woman in very shabby
yidow's weeds. She wanted a machine
TOR herself and daughter to learn, and
aid she had heard that | would take
lie money by iusIallments. Now, Just
half an hour before, by Onr shop
lock, I had made n vow that I'd give
~ ali that part Of the trade, and was
very rough with her-iust as 1 I'm when
I'm crOsB-and said emo"
"Blt you will if the lady gives eccn-
| rity," says my wife.
Tho poor woman gave such n woe
| bcgOne look mt M that it made me
more ont of temper than ever, for J
could feel that it / stopped | should
| have to lot her have n iirst-class ma
| chine, IA good as new, she only paying
even and six down, and undertaking to
Duy half n crown a week and no more
security than nothing.
To mike it wOcsc, too, If didn't
lcnd the thing home without charge,
! Luke going with il, for he was back a
home now, keeping my books, being
rown into a fine young fellow Of five
md twenty and | sat aud Rrowled the
whole Of the rest OF tho day, calling
uygcIf nll the weak minded idiots IN
! Ter the sun, and telling tho wife that
| bnsincgB was going to the dogs, and
should be ruined.
$50 I am," said |. 81 didn't think
/ could be such n fool"
"Sucl II fooi az TO 40 n Roou KIN"
action TO one who was evidently II lady
born and como down in the world "
"Yos," / says, "to living in Ben
nett's pIoce where I've sunk no less
than ten machines III i've ycarS'
Yes" says the VIE, 'and cleared
hundreds o! pounds I0m, I'm
- l--N -
ashamed oil yoh-yon n man WIN twenty
workmen busy 4PS'alr'' u coupe OF
bipllslnd ponh"b "oi'h VI "'oo"' IN"
IN the bank " ,y,
"lloid your tongue, WI J"''
sad roughly, II woht on. ihCo 'lo
shop to try n WORK IL III Gn' ,.,.
Luxe came o'cH boon Iloo' io"nI!b
very strange, ma ! was ~ MN o'rGc1iy,
Where's the seven an SIX lSayS
angrlly.
lie didn't answer nut pnC inc ''lree
half crowns down ON tio aeHK, LOOK 0u'
the book, made ms ehtrieS,dlto OF "3
livery, hrat payment Whon inc o,lerh
due, and all the rest oil land was
then gong INTO inc iiollHe'
"Mnd,' says sharply az tl"Se
payments are TO be kept up 10 INC day,
and 10 morrow you go to itolly5 VINO
live nearly opposite to en- to Keep IN
eye ON the widow, or We shall lose an
Other machine"
"YOu needn't be afrnId, father, he
says, COldly /" they're honest enough,
only Door"
! WINS Just in TINT humor that ! wanted
10 quarrel with somebody, and that
did il.
"Vbou I max Won for your opinion,
vounO man. Won rive it nae and when
/ tell Won 10 do n thing. Won do it"
gnys in ma enyage II way as ever | spoke {
la fine Ind. "You 20 over tomorrow |
md tell Rollv to keen n straight look. a
ont ON those poople-do you hear ?"
"Tnther. he sayg, looking me full in C
Iho Gocc al couidu't insult them by
doing such II thing" when without M '
other word he walked quietly out OF the
shop, leaving me worse than ever. q
For that boy had mover spoken to me y
like that before, and ! should have &
gone after him feeling mad like, only g
people came III, and didn't see '
hin ngain till evening, ana n COCA I
tEing, too, for I'm sure should have
said all sorts OF things to the boy that
| should have been sorry Tor after
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