The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-09

at last
"Father, wish you'd say yes"
''To what, my boy Z"
''To-can 1 have store just like You do,
day after tomorrow and sell candy and ap-
pies, an pies, an things. And have big
ledger.book to keep 'co1nt in. Take the
money ATS in my frog bank; you know you
always said I'll have to be merchant
man. Can't begin, please, father ?"
Carl wasn't too much of man despite
his 'ten-year-old next Fo'th O July, sir"
to put his arms right round his fathers
neck and give him good, sounding
smack
His father laughed and said:-
Eyes 1 guess SO; how much money has
the frog swallowed?"
Carl didn't know; SO the bank was
brought and the little boy sent out of the
room while the frog was made to disgorge.
Carl wasn't allowed TO see the process, lest
he might try it for himself some time.
When he came in again, glittering little
heap of silver lay on the table; the bank
vas empty-the frog perched innocently
Upon it with mouth wide-open as ever.
When the money was counted, Carl looking
over his fathers shoulder and croaking Che
can't sing note):-
1.-THE King was in the parlor counting out his
money,
The queen was in the kitchen, eating bread and
honey"
all through the operation of putting the
! live-cent pieces in little piles of twenty,
| and the quarters into little piles of four.
When all was done, there were just ten
piles of fves and three over, four piles OF
quarters and one over, three half dollars
and eight great big coppers. How much
money was there ?"
Fifteen dollars and ninety eight cents !!
seemed quite fortune to Carl, and the
the chance of, perhaps, doubling it by in.
vesting it in "candy an apples an pies an
things!" No wonder Carl's swapping blacl
eyes shown big and bright with joyous an
ticipation.
'And you'll have Aunt Pattie Fields tt
make 'em for me,-cakes you know, an
pies" he said, throwing his arms arount
his mothers neck, nearly choking her in hi
earnestness.
| Aunt Patty Fields, so-called by all tn
village people, though she had neither kill
nor kin among them, had in her younge
days been pastry ry-cook in famous biI
hotel in the famous big city of New York
SO, since she had at one time kept hous
three weeks for Carl's mother and Carl
had, with her permission, stuffed himsel
sick with delicious tarts and cake and pie
he had come to be her fast friend and t.
believe devoutly in her ability to concoc
anything in the cooking line.
'Maynt she muther, please?"
And his mother smiled and said ''yes,
too. People say they spoiled the boy, bl
I don't believe that
So the next morning Aunt Patty cam'
and of all the sitting of -four and of stol
ing of raisins and picking over of curran
and measuring of sugar and spices an
: beating eggs! Cal had a fnger-ar
sometimes two or three of them--in eae
and every pie.
5 At night there were rows on rows
r cakes and tarts and pies on the pant
t shelves. Perhaps that fact may account Fl
Carl's sudden and irresistible thirstines
r and his consequent frequent visits to Il
o kitchen for water
. The morning of the Fourth came at las
s as all mornings, however anxiously look
+ for, do come. Carl was up earlier than
had ever been before in all his ten-yes
r life, carrying his wares from the pant
: shelves to his little 'booth"-he want
), store by himself, you know,-which h
/; been erected for him. He looked rath
t. disdainfully, I am afraid, on other te
r year-old boys, whose chief enjoyme
/ seemed to be in swapping torpedoes a
h crackers.
1t Everything was SO fresh and neat
S, Carl's store that wish you could have Sc
G. it; the narrow counter, made of rou
y boards, had, nevertheless, piney SIN
y that quite made up for its lack of elegan
X SO Carl thought, and SO I think.
la Well, he arranged his cakes and ct
5h fections along the shelves, opened
oe ledger, took his pen and wrote on the Gle
white pages in his scrawling, sohool-b
~ hand:--
es Account with Mister"
s, Presently people began to flock into
s, village, and Carl was in fever of excl
ly ment lest one should not notice the sign
lg black letters:-'Nuts, Caks, Candys,
lp pies, And Every Thing Mise For S
IN Hear" The last two three words dang
ry down ignominiously. There was not 70
on the board.
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