The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-21

as any of them before I'm done. where
to say, and I've got the will"
And Jimmy set his little brains to work
without saying a word to any of them.
Tom was a%pprenticed to a carpenter. Sam
vent to learn the hatter's trade. Benny was
taken into Mr.. G-'s office to mind the
fires, run of errands and clean windows; and
:; when they were all settled little Jimmy went
poking about the house and cellar, hunting
up all sorts Of pots and kettle, and soon sur
the big silver half dollar that she had saved
for him ever since it was given to him a year
before.
cts not for hohing nanny" he said.
"Indeed it isn't Pm going into business
with it."
And, indeed, half hour from that time
Jimmy, with a tin kettle in his little goat
cart, was going from door to door, not selling
but buying someth ing. And what do you
think that something was? A very queer
thing, youwill say. Fat!
Fat" he kept calling. "Soap fat soap
fat ~
People locked out of their basement win
lows and said to themselves, "what a little
soap-fat boy )" and Jimmy was very careful
to give a good price for what they sold him.
He had watched the old soap-tat men and
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little kettle was full he went home, stopping
at the druggists to buy some potash with the
money he had left. Jimmy, as you may sup
pose, was going to make soft soap. He had
seen it done, and knew how very well.
And now he went to work in the yard at
the back OF the house, and certainly the smell
that Arose was not pleasant, and soap making
is dirty work. But at last Jimmy crOWed
with joy, for there was a great kettle full Of
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He gave some to his mother, who said it was
"splend.u."
On the next day out came the little goat
cart again, and What the little fellow cried this
time was "Soft soap Everybody bought of
him. He sold his soap very soon and he made
a little profit on it. 1t wasn't much, but it
encouraged him. Day after day be made his
soap and sold it, and after a while he tried
some hard soap. BY this time his mother be-
gan to think her lame Jimmy the smartest
boy she had and the children in the neigh
borhood were all interested in his work, and
he had plenty of help with his kettles, if he
wanted it.
The hard soap was a success-there could
be no doubt of that-and more profitable
than soft soap and it was not long before he
really made two dollars every week, which
was not bad for a little lame boy only twelve
years old.
roT SlA ulOltIS JIMMY kept dt his nara
work, and was all the better for his long walk
every day, and at the end of This time a great
piece OF good luck happened to him. A nice
old lady who had often watched him from the
window called him in and asked HIM all
about his work, and when he had told her
who he was and all about himself. she pattrd
him on the head and 5 id that her son was a
large manufacturer of soap, candles and per-
fumes, and that he should teach him how to
do everything in that line.
my son does whatever l ask him." said
the old lady. Gle was a very good boy to
me, as you are to your mother, and we are
rich enough to do a Kindness"
The next day a stout, middle-aged gentle
man came to the poor widows cabin and
talked to her. He promised to teach Jimmy
his trade, and said lie could be useful enough,
at first TO earn three dollars a week; and you
may imagine that the widow was pleased.
Jimmy was delighted. He went regu larry to
to the factory and learned his trade very fast.
Before long he made good wages, and at
eighteen he began business for himself on a
larger scale than before, and prospered so
well that to-day he IS one of the richest men
in his
Old Mrs. Weekly is not obliged to work for
her own living o She dresses as well as
house, and she often says to her friends when
they call TO see her:
"My boys are all good boys, and have all
prospered, but none has been so smart, or got
along so we'll as little lame Jimmy, that l
never thought would be able to earn a penny
for himself in all his life