Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-07-30


ears,
60 home every one ii You. Are
you deaf. I've lost my gold pen, /
don't feel in the humor for company.
Good night
And thus Samuel Medbury dismissed
his anxious kinSman. The great
jewellers Of Mellor and Moorham was
~ sooner open the next day than IN
walked Mr.. Feuoll.
Il wish TO look NJ gold pens please,
said he, with Il nod at the shopman,
whom he knew. Something very
nice for old Medbury, you know--old
Ni>er Mcdburv, We call him. Ha, ha.
M He's broken his, and lis 4 good
chance 10 curry favor with the old
hunks
Exactly" said the shopman, draw
ing his hand across his lips with 4 GU
yiouS sort ot i grim. Here are some
very fair specimens, Mr.. Ferrol-
ahem"
Mr. Fcrroll was hard to please, hut
finally made selection and went cut,
leaving directions that the present
should he sent 1t once, with his card
enclosed; and not fifteen minutes after
wards in marched George Leslie
Gold pens, said he. THE cheap
e>t you've get Its like buying lot
terry ticket 70 give anything 70 old
Snap-and-Snarl Mcdbury; one never
knows how he may take it, and il isn't
likely he'll know the difference between
and 4 No. article and n second class
one
Your cousin, Mr.. Fcrroll, has just
given eighteen shillingS for one to hc
sent to Mr.. Medbury = said the shrcwd
>hopman.
"Eh! What. How, Coatound his
meddling impudencc-what put the
idea into is head Then suppose
shall have to send il twenty shilling ono.
although the deuce knows ann unable
to spare the money, These mclcS are
Il terribly expensive luxury
And he paid the reluctant twenty
shillings and took his departure.
Upon the Very door step whom should
hemcct hut Frank Fcsscndon.
Eth? You're coming 10 buy Il gold
pen, are You ." surlily demanded he,
but you're too late. Fcrrolla1d have
both sent one
Nothing Of thr sort" said Frank
cheerily. "l'ncle's i jolly old brick,
but ! can't afford expensive presents
while my board bill is vet unpaid, and
my washerwoman clamoring for funds.
| suppose he hasn't been here yet this
morning.
who, Uncle q
..Ges. He wrote me Il note to he
mere at ten o'ez ock.
"lcs, Mr.. Fessendcn, he's here" said
the shopman advancing, and rubbing
the palms of his hands together, Just
back here III the cashiers office.
.Eh?' cried out Mr.. Leslie, his com
pleNion turning a dull bilious green.
= My uncle mt the cashiers desk And
only aht of ground glass and rose
wood railing between me and him 2
Why, then, Of course he's heard every
word said?"
I'm afraid its exceedingly probable,
sir, said the shopman, with Il covert
grin. Its no fault of mine. | was
Just about to caution Mr.. Fcrrroll about
speaking ont quite 50 freely, but the old
tongue So what was | to do"
In the same breath, out camc Mr..
MedhWry from the cashiers little rallied
linden, like q Jackin-a-boN.
Much obliged for the gold pen, my
dear boy he said, chuckling and grim
ming, and looking more like Napoleon
Bonapartc than ever, But YOU are
mistaken about old Snap-and-Snarls
judgment; hes pretty sure 10 know Il
good article when lie sccs il And tell
Your cousin Marmadukc, if you should
happen to see him, that old Miscr
Mcdbury has got as many gold pens as
he's likely To want for the prescnt-ha,
Ina, ha"
And If ever Mr. Mcdhuly enjoyed
that joke, and the too evident discom-
titu'e of Mr.. George Leslie.
assure you, sir, am very sorry,
began the young man.
And I'm very gladn' said Mr.. Med
bury, abruptly. = like to be certain
about things, like 70 know whether
my ncphcws are fools or knavcs, Or
like this one" elapping Frank Fcscn-
den ON the back. ~ tolerahe honest
fellow. Come, Frank, Wen see about
this vacancy. I'm always willing To
help a man that i ready to help him
self, and only wish your cousins were
only half as thoughtful about board
bills and washcrwomens accounts as
You arc,
Frank accepted the situation-it was
only poor hundred a year clerkship,
but as Medbury sagely remarked, it
might be stepping stone to some
thing better; and he did wcll--so well
that at the end of six months Mcdbury
scandalizcd his herd Of expcctant rcla-
tiyes by announcing his attention ofad-
opting Frank as his son and heir
I've been like Diogencs with his
lantern, all my days looking ont for an
honest man, observed the old piece Of
"And ! believe I've
found him. Duke and George came
near imposing upon me at one time. ]
had my doubts about 'cm, but never
should have been quite certain if it
hadn't been f.. that business Of the
gold pen. / did't exactly see myself n
others saw me, hut heard of myself AZ
others were probably in the habit Of
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