The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-06-14
OLD MONEYBAGS'S WILL.

lsTORY TOLD OVER A COUNTER.
ilina What time it is since you were
Ier I Il. Mrs. Marbury; and how fresh you
! bo g&ln exclaimed Mrs. Chappell, while
7 w4aook hands with her over the counter
| ha i day in the early part of August.
er Wherever have you been so long? l
TN build say in the country, from your
e III pearanee.'
could not reciprocate the compli-
mt, for thought she looked tagged
ntioI q jaded-but it might be with the heat
OI simply answered her question.
sctora We'll, have been in the country,
with kstue, but not among green fields and
in raied hedgerows. | have been in the
he Back Country black with coal, and
rona ", and inder-heaps, and smoke; and
lie iEFed at night with the glow from
' dyi tanng furnaces. So you see have not
, spa lsa picking up my fresh looks where
e Of fahen pick up daisies. No, l have
olicy5 a helping to right great wrong !;
live &dperhaps my inward satisfaction may
0 aeta smoothed away few outward
and Eakles.''
Gnd "lndeed!' calculated Mrs. Chap
bending forward with a look of
Gna gN inquiry; 81 hope it is not Sc
TeH NJ"
Sc 40, just the reverse" replied, sit
a nd down on shop-chair. 81 have
din sardened myself of a secret which has
non aed my mind for many years. have
pad nsept it willingly; but the time had
the fome for me to speak.
we'd "hi about ten years ago, when |
f Of vowed my calling in Willenhall and
ghs asal, was sent for somewhat hasti-
ee fr . attend an old fellow-I can not call
ng q gentleman, though he was rich
II sei agh-who lived in a solitary square
lat q se away from the high-road, and
ons, supposed to be dying.
vide a mad often seen old Weston, or
,e sal ~a honeybags," as he was called,
just lSlngg about and talking to the lock-
must aths and nail-makers, men and wom-
9 up ooth; and it was from one of the late
Car Amazons, whose head was plaster
ans Up after free fight with a rival of
'riba hammer, that l had heard what little
NEW Of him.
,st, lheer goes owd Monevbags after
'ents. They say he's mint of mon
reed mn bank, an lots o. houses; an
!. Of s. Ia to his gran child, lad no
on, ia nor eawr Sam. Look at his goold
or N an him nobbut Willenha' lock-
,han aa When OIL wer wed; but theet's
aote nor 40 year SIM,
Y. ,ne then went on to tell me that
weston had invented new kind of
6 B and taking out a patent for his
hss ,p''oa' had thereby amassed for
rs. 81 ana It would ali fall to a bov who
ssS put other folks's noses out. tbouoh
,erie1 sure'who had a better right than his
Tandchild? Jim Weston had
,aio ,as a hls back upon his daughter for
thef ,l.u ing John Dudley, a Walsall spur
,rsv ~, Without penny, just as her fa-
.nna vas Beginning to make his way in
sctor nra.. %sla, and thought his money and
in III rsuy lace together might procure
ia, nj nsehtieman for her husband.
III nal ~ get his face against the Young
in ~ ~, ana never relented till after she
CAM NV \ WIDOW, 2! or quite forgave her until
of n Jug ilttle Jim sobbing beside his
ial ~. .aother's coffin, in miserable
NJ %s;aa "a q grlmy neighborhood. Then
d IN Asamaa. Au her grandly, and put fine
ho aielt n, over her "a sort of broken
,e er In T1.akIng the boy home to his bic
he cd ana engaging masters to give
mad d 4 sood education, of which he had
,aloaI nm want. ts.hi~
,os = aa;s Gsfe weretwo people, however
usto1 sst ~ = not take kindly to this arrange
IONS s,@lss M aad these We're keturah and Jol
i1h ass,s, his elder sisters son ant
sill ass,s ,,ef' Who had done their best te
wss sssS s i INTO his good graces; anG
hat Aes II ssa as mad shown no other marks o.
IA b hser,a aaa getting the latter into an at
arid ss,s,9 once, and putting Keturah in
te ~a'! shop in Walsail, these two