Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-05-22
Tas family Circle.
Harry's Allowance.
BY CAMPBELL WHEATON.

Grandfather stood on the terrace looking |
down to the front gate through which
come a small boy of seven " Rushed "
would be better word. for Hari y seldom
had time to walk and flew up the step, |
now ut such IL rate that grandfather step
ped aside hastily. saying:
"What now, Harry, boy?'
It's II new store, grandpa. new store.
with all sorts of things in it; everything
we 'ant, figs and slate pencils and shoe
strings and everything, and old Bob Field
keeps it. | want mamma. Where is mann
map"
up stairs with baby; but, child, don't
want to turn ~ somerset down the front
steps if there is n new store. Can't you
90 little slower?"
II didn mean to run into YOU" Harry
said apologetcaliy, " only codldn t wait,
was in such hurry And he plunged
up the stairs ut the same rate that had
nearly upset grandfather.
Come stiller, DEAR" said voice from
the window. cor | shall think own u
cannon ball instead of Il little boy. What
is the hurryP"
"Only to tell you about the store" and
Harry planted his elbows on his mammals
knees and looked into her eyes.
"Where is itP'
"Close by the school house, mamma,
that speck of n house. you know. Bob
Field is going to live in the back room
and have "a store in the front, and he's got
oh, everything! Mammal
"WeI, Harry?"
Il wish | had some money"
"What could You do with it?"
"Oh, spend it. I'd buy tatfy. or some-
thing else maybe. Why can't have some
pennies every weekp Don't you know
how Charlie Durkee does? Couldn't |
have two?"
THAT don't seem unreasonable for a
beginning" said Mrs. Morrell "Will
you be content with two, thought"
Yes, indeed" Harry answered. begin
ming to jump up and down. because
often 90 week and don't have one.
Unless you meant to give me more" he
added hastily. I'D love TO have three"
"Very well, you shall have three. You
love to share everything too well, to run
any risk of making yourself sick with
what is left. I'll give them to you now
only remember that it is only three cents a
Wc6h anu iutb Spu lHuot pan lloW W Nv
the most with them"
ooh, You loveliest mammal" Harry
said, with Il choking hug, and then ran
down to tell grandfather of his good for
tune
Harry was II village boy, as you may
have, by this time, guessed, sure that /;
city boy would never be so excited over :
store of any kind And store in the vii
lage itself would have been nothing tc
think about But lame Bob Field, who
had not peddled molasses candy in the ole
school house for nothing. knew very wei
what would come of settling near it, anC
that every spare penny owned by thost
small boys and girls, would, sooner OF
Later, find its way into his till He chuck
led quietly as he arranged his window
piling up the white peanuts, and making
IL star of figs and dates in the center
There were other things too, which nigh
he useful to the people who lived on the
farms cl Sc by; needles and PINS, an,
behring's and crackers and so on, but Boil
had spent most all his capital on what thu
children would buy, sure that they would
prove his best customers.
Harry, as it happened, WAS the first one
and, after a good deal Of thinking. decided
upon IL stick of ~intergreen candy will
which to treat Amy Green, who lived mex
door to them. The stick seemed so small
that he hesitated and Bob said:
"Well? You want something else?"
"I'll take half cents worth of pea
nuts and half cents worth of raisins, ;
Harry said, putting the other penny ut the
very bottom of his pocket. 1t would never
do to spend all three the first day.
That amt no way to trade" said Bob
i" don't do business that way"
Then I'll have all peanuts" said Har
ry, so cheerfully that Bob changed hi
mind, and counted out thirteen peanuts
and four rasns.
just for once" he growled; " don
you let on"
mo" Harry said, delighted, and run
ming cut to meet Amy. who was just com
ing down the road with her brother ant
Charlie Durkce Miss Brown tapped OF
the window, and all Harry could fine
time for then was to say, in a loud wits
per:
lin going to treat III recess
Recess had never seemed longer in com
ing, and Harry found so many good thing
in his pocket very distracting, and almos
wished he had waited till after school.
Thirteen peanuts could not divide even
ly; and having eaten the twelve, Am,
and he spent the rest of recess in plantin.
the thirteenth and bringing water from
the spring to water it. Charley, in tn
meantime, indignant that he had not beef
shared with, watched his chance, and dig
ging it up, ate it with IL relish. which, a
the peanut was II roasted one and neve
could have grown any way, was perhap
just us we'll.
Like other people before and since, a
time went on, Harry found it difficult t
live within his income. Treating" wa
80 pleasant, and three cents did so littl
towards it. Harry longed for more, but
way out one day came to him as he wen
with grandfather into the grocery.
Charge it on my bill,' said Mr.. Burto
e rs he went out.
: Charge it, repeated Harry, olimbin
: into the buggy. You always say thai
!, grandfather
Q mot always" said Mr.. Burton, d" for
pay the bill once month. Chargin
: means that he writes in his books what
i owe him, till | am ready to pay. It
: most convenient, because sometimes
t have not the money with me; but it
+ generally best to pay rs you 60"
: Harry sat quite still. Why should h
n not have bill, and let Bob "charge it?
: Grandfather often gave him pennies, an
e he could save them and pay all at ono,
3 He would tell mamma the moment he &c
o home. No, he wouldn either. He d tr
h it first and see how it seemed, and the
= tell her.
+ Harry might have known there wa
something not quite right when he wa
: not willing 10 90 at once 10 her, but ker
: still, thinking he would call it a socrt
e and enjoy telling it after while So ne,
II morning he went into BIS and locke
b about Fresh dates, altogether too goo
y to do without, were in the window, an
he said at once;