The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-10-20
STRENGTHENING Accounts.

you ever did. It's business like and
want to encourage you in it,"
"Ilerc's the ink" said Mrs. SpoC
pendyke, growing radiant at the com
pliment. II had the pen day bcfor
yesterday. Let me think" And sh
dove into her workbasket and thcI
glanced nervously under the bureau.
"Well, do you suppose Pm going II
I --'I'1.ru the pen. ! want the pen"
Spoopcndyke. "Ah! here | have it
Now, you scc," she continued, 81 put
what money spend down here
This is your account here, and this is
tho Joint account. You know"
"What is this!" asked Mr.. Spoopcn'
Ike.
"That's your account; this"
"No, no; l mean this marine sketch
in the second line?"
"That? Oh, that's T."
"S'pose l ever spent seven dollars
with tail like that to ii! If you're
going to make figures why don't you
make figures? What dye want to
make a picture of prize fight i'll col.
umn of accounts for? What is the clc-
phant doing here!"
81 think that's a p" replied Mrs.
Spoopcndyke, obviously. "Maybc it's
al. can tell you by adding it up"
uvd %WaGt Wca6Htn2 2'i IN tbs corner ;Hi lot and that
rose bush and this pair of suspendcrs
Dye add them all iu?.'
"Thats Il 6 and that is a . and the
last is an s. They come out all right
and during the last month You have
spent more than aud the Joint ac'
count together"
"IIaven't either. When did | spend
this broken down gnnboat?'
"That amt a boat. It's Si2 for youl
suit"
"Well, this tramp fishing oil rock,
when did spend him?"
1T amt a tramp. It's $50 cash yor
took, and | don't know what you spen
It for. Look at my account, now"
whats that man pulling gis
for?n
"Its nothing of the sort. That aim
gig, it's 81 for wigging, You SCI
Pvc only spent S22 in month, an'
you've spent S14o."
"a oan, tcn ny tnls what Iv'
DONE" growled Mr.. Spoopendyke
What's this rat trap doing in the join
account"
"Thats fourteen cents for fruit
when YOU were sick"
"And this mcasle-looking old hen
what has she to do with it?'
"That's no hen. That's ,. /
means - for having your chair mend
ed"
"What have you charged me wit
this old graveyard forY'
"ThaL's fifteen cents for sleeve elias
tics. The 10 amt plain, but that
what it is."
GLOW do you make out that L hav
spent so much? Where's the voucil
crs? Show me the vouchers
81 don't know what yon mean,
said Mrs. Spoopendyke, "but yo'
spent all put down"
"IIaven't done anything of the sort
Show me some vouchers. Your &C
counts all humbug. Iou don't kno'
how TO keep an account"
ayes do" pleaded Mrs. Spoopen
dyke, "and think it all right"
"No, YOU don't. What do You mcal
by getting up engravings OF secon'
han I furniture store and claiming tina
it's my accounts? You're a grea
bookeeper, you arc. All you want il
a sign hung between you and the othcl
side of the street TO be a commercial
college. III ever fail in business, I'm
going to fill you upIwith benches ant
start night school. Give me tina
pen" And Mr.. Spoopendyke com
menced running up the columns
"Two two's four and eight twelve ant
four sixteen and carry one to the mex
and three is four. Here, this is wrong
You're got an eighteen for a twenty
here"
"Eh?" jcrked out Mrs. Spoopcn
dyke.
"This is S2O4. | knew You couldn'
keep accounts. You can't even ado
up"
"That makes your account even big
ger" replied Mrs. Spoopendyke. -
didn't think ii was so much"
Slam went the book across the room
followed by the pen, and the ink
would have gone, too, but Mrs. Spoop
cndyke cautiously placed it out OF
harms way.
"Dod CAST it," howled Mr.. Spoop
endyke, as ne tore off his clothes an(
prepared for bed. "You amt fl
to have pen and ink. Next time
want accounts kept I'll keep 'en
chained up in the yard and don't yo'
90 near 'em; you hear me?"
"Yes, dear" sighed Mrs. Spoopen'
dyke, as she slipped the obnoxiou
book into a drawer.
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