The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-11
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4 LUCKY TUMBLE.

When Mrs. Snatcham asked me.
knowing nay usual kindness, whether
would watch the baby in her cradle,
"just for half an hour" l felt that a
crisis had come. l must leave Mrs.
Snatcham's.
| say Mrs. Snatcham's, for Mr..
Snatcham was not unduly prominent in
his own house. He was a meek man,
with fearful eyes. Mrs. Snatcham was
well, woman with will, and she
had eyes which made you feel uncom-
Portable. / had been private tutor in
this abode for twelve months. My
charge consisted of four young gentle
men, of strong bodies and perverse dis
positions. They quarreled necessarily
on all points save one. Against their
lawless tutor they combined heartily.
Their cry was ever )" War to the knife!''
1 had borne it all; / might have contin-
led to bear it all, but no, could not
take charge of the baby, even for half
an hour. 1 must bid the Snatchams
adieu.
l was gloomily coeitating my next
movement when a letter arrived for me
from the only near relative possessed
an old uncle, to whom had written
detailing my troubles.
Look here, Harry it ran, "if
you've mind to live in peace and die
worth money, you forget all about your
things ihey srs a airs sa tA 5 1aafa
saw that they turned into much beef or
mutton. You put your books in the fire
and your pride in your pocket, and
never take it out again You know
what l was in early life, nephew. 1
kept shop-a general shop-in a
country town, and 1 didn't do SO badly.
Well, I've just heard the good will and
stock in trade of shop of this kind in
little town fifty miles from London is
for sale, and say the word and I'll buy
it for you. And, as your education has
been SO neglected that you'd know
nothing of such business, I'll come
and steer you Alright for a time, until
fortune is before you. There nowr'
Humph! l gave gasp or two at this
grand proposition of my worthy rela-
tive. Private tutorship at the Snatch
ans was poor enough, but the keeping
OF "a shop of all sorts'' in country
town, under the guidance of my good
uncle! Well, it was the old story, 1--WE
never know what we may come to-
And so left the Snatchams and the
t2O year they gave me (by-the-by, 1
believe my successor received only
eighteen guineas, and did not object to
mind the baby, and wrote to my I'M
c.e that l was ready to accompany
him to the-the shop. Alas, for the
vanity of human designs! News came
back that my relative had died sud
denly, and had left the whole of his
property to the g Sausage-Makers' Be
nevolent Institution" Of which he had
been Vice-President, in company Ito
his great delight) with half a dozen
mobiles OF the land
However, all the money needful on
my account had been paid, and rather
than return to the horrors of private
tutorship secured the services of an
experienced shopman, and determined
to try my fortune in the new direction
so lauded by my deceased relative.
do not want to lengthen my story,
and therefore l will comprise a great
deal in one short sentence-I tried and
/ failed.
| soon began to perceive, not so very
far off, not the fortune my uncle had
foretold, but bankruptcy and the work
house. And when these pleasant pros
poets came very distinctly to my men,
tai vision, then it was engaged to
marry
Thus it happened. I became at
tached to the only daughter Of widow,
living some ten miles from nv abode |