Middletown transcript., 1877-09-15

Ii lew udySy OAGA t0HAAuASJ was
fairly enitiated into the mystery Of
peddling pills about the city. He was
shrewd, humorous, sausy, witty and
knowing. He was marvelously sue
} cessful. He let no one escape whom
he addressed. He sees a stout gentle
man before him:
Buy a box Of DR.. HUNS celebrated
roomattuc pills r.
eNo, boy"
"Cure the toothache and make hair
grow on the:soles Of your feet.
@Don't want any"
@Cure roomatism, and no mistakelg
Haven't any rheumatism. Go Off"
aBut you Will have it, old un I Bet
ter buy. On'y twenty-five CENTS.
What's a quarter to a rich great hunks
like YOU Cure the consumption,
headache, and every other ache, 'spe-
cially corns.'
"Therel give me box. Take that
now be gone r
But DR.. Hum, was indicted for for.
gerry of some other Doctor HUNS sig
nature, and Dick was cast upon the
world with only two nine pence, an old
hat, a new pair of breeches and his
five months experience as a pill-ped-
dler, in which vocation he had become
perfectly familiar with every street in
Gotham, and had picked up good
many acquaintance, such as they were.
He had a particular friend-a hack
ney coaehman-who took him in on
shares, to drive and rub down the
horses.
Behold Mr.. Dickens Shindley now
rising in the world He now began to
make money, and the love of grain de-
veloped itself in his soul. He bought
less and less ginger bread and soda
water, and began to hoard up the cents
and fourpence ha'pennies. He made
a money-box and hid it in the stable
loft, and into it put all his gains. He
found that he could live cheaper by
buying bread and cheese when he was
=
hungry, and sleeping in the hackney
coach, than by boarding; and 50 they
lived along in this economical vaga-
bond way for several months, when
the hackman took sick and died, and |
Dick was elevated to his place as full
driver. In this sphere of usefulness
he continued until he was eighteen, by
hook and by crook, the large sum of
two hundred and eighty-four dollars.
In those days there was no savings
banks for small gains. Dick kept his
treasure in the stable, concealed from
every eye. At length the soul Of our
young friend began to expand with
conscious emotions. When he saw the
handsome carriages of the rich roll
past, he envied the iveried spIendor
of the coachman, and resolved to rise
in the world by applying for the first
vacant ''Box" that should offer in a
gentleman's family. The opportunity
for gratifying his wishes soon arrived,
and Dick, in a new suit and nicely
combed hair, applied for the place and
accepted. His employer was a wealthy
merchant, who lived in the lower part
Of Broadway at that day, and whose
familyllead the fashion. It was a nice
old-fashioned aristocratic home, and
the air Of wealth and splendor which
surrounded everything quite dazzled
5he new coachman.
Dickens was young man who had
bis eyes always about him. He seemed
% consider that every position he oc-
,upied was only to give him lift to
something better. He had no inten- !
ion Of driving horses all his life. In
5he secret of his heart, he hoped one
lay to own horses and have driver
IF his own. But these were dim out {
ines in the future, and did not seem
likely to ever be filed out. He con {
5inued to drive the coach Of Mr.. Robt. {
Rowley, the millionaire merchant; and,
when he could give his attention to it,
he endeavored to learn the secrets t
his master grew rich. !
1t 50 happened that, one day, when q
the family were in the country and !
he carriage not in use, that the man '
# heavy work in the store was taken t
i, and Mr.. Rowley sent up for Dick '
ms to take his place for a few DAYS. |
No message was ever more welcome. I
To be in the store where all the money
was made, was the carriage-driver's c
ambition. He had got tired driving {
'ut a fat old lady and the young lady's
obeying their whin1s, and. beside, he 1
Gould not make any money beyond his /
Nages-that he could not speculate. l
He went down to the store with a
alacrity. He made himself 50 willing, g
md was 50 intelligent and useful, that '
when, after week, the sheavy man. |
returned, Mr.. Rowley said j
Richard, how would you like to re G
main here2 I win give you lighter {
Vork-to pack and unpack goods, and y
,pen and shut up. Lean easily get Y