The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-03-15
[From Fraser's Magazine.1
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE TO LIVE.
TRANSLATED BY o. K.)
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Continued.
v.
Simon awoke at day break; the chill
dren still slept; his wife had gone tc
borrow bread of some neighbors. The
stranger of the day before was sitting
alone on bench in his shirt, his eyes
turned upwards; and he looked more
cheerful than he did the evening be-
fore.
"M ell, good friend" said Simon
the stomach asks for bread, and the
naked body asks for clothes. One
must eat and drink. What is youl
trade?"
Simon wondered, and said,-
perhaps you're willing to learn
There's nothing one can't learn
''Other people work, and will
work too"
Whats your name?"
Michael"
"Well, Michael, you don't want to
speak Of yourself. Well, that's your
own business. But one has to eat and
drink. If you do what l tell you
will nourish you"
God bless you! l will set to and
learn ''Show me what | must do >
Simon took up piece of unwound
pitched thread, put it on his fingers
and hogan to wind it.
ut Is easy enough, look!"
Michael looked, put it on his fingers
in the same way, understood at once
and began to wind.
Michael wound the ends; Simon
showed him how to close them. This
too, Michael took in at once. His
host showed him how to grind; and
this also Michael took in at once.
Whatever work Simon showed him
how to do, he was able to take in at
once, and the third day he was work
ing as if he had been sewing for an
age. He worked on without stop
ping, ate little, and when they stop
ped working he would silently look
upward. He did not walk in the
street, or talk too much, or joke, OF
laugh.
It was only once they saw him
smile, on the first evening, when the
wife was preparing to give him some
supper.
Day after day, week after week
passed by; whole year had slipped
round, and Michael was still living as
before, and still at work with Simon.
Every one praised the work Of Simon S
workman, and they said that no one
could put together a pair of boots so
neatly and so strongly as Michael, the
workman of Simon. Far and wide
they began to order boots of Simon,
and he began to live quite at ease.
One day in winter, when Simon and
Michael were working together, a
coach on slides drove up to the cot
tage. They looked out of the window,
the coach drew up opposite their cot
tage, youth jumped down from the
sledge and opened the door. A young
man in a furred coat stepped out of
the coach, walked up to Simon's cot
tage, and reached the staircase. Mat
roma rushed out and threw open the
door. The gentleman stopped and
entered. When he Strengthened him
self his head nearly touched the cell
ing.
Simon stood up and made a bow.
The gentleman astonished him. He
had not seen folks like that Simon
himself was thin, and Michael was a
lanky fellow; as for Matrona, she
was like dried chip; but here was
one who seemed to have come from
another world, a handsome, we'll
formed bust, throat like .bullock's S,
he looked for all the world like an
iron cast.
The gentleman stopped few mo-
ments to take breath, took off his fur
red coat, sat on bench, and said,-
WHO is the master workman
here?"
Simon stood forward and said,-
Il, your honor"
Hi, Theodore!'' the gentleman
called out to his youth, bring me
the parcel"
Theodore ran off and brought it in.
The gentleman took the parcel and
put it on the table,
"Untie it, he said The youth
united it.
The gentleman pointed to some
bootmaker's leather, and said to ST.
mOn,-
Listen, bootmaker; do you SEE
that?"
Il do, your honor" he said.
'But do you realize what kind OF
leather that 1s?"
Simon turned it over and said -
Very good leather"
Very good, you say; you never
saw the like, you fool. That's Ger.
man; l paid twenty roubles for it. "
Simon was quite startled, and said =
"Where should we have seen th'
like?"
swell, well, can you make me
pair Of boots Of that leather?''
II can, your honor"
: $50 you can, can you?" said tn
gentleman in a loud voice. Don
forget whom you'll be working for
and what leather you'll be using
N You must make me pair of boot
e such as will last me whole yea
+ without wearing down or wearini
i out. IL you can do this, take tn
leather and cut it up; but if yo
F! can't, don't take it and don't cut
y up. [ tell you beforehand, if tn