Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-11-02
10 Shillings OF Luck.
cHApTERI

I#n WOrlu W NNA
4 4 rocket, but in skill. ofcourse,
always a mans own fault when
4 !. failure; that was the fayorite
\ ',.ios Of Herr Elias Lewis, the
banker and tinancier, who
"A have bought up half Eulen-
I'm therefore must be true; but
u. syen allowing for lack Of skill
4 hard to say why Cans. the tailor
1 MA have been quiteso poor. For
n ~ sober, not only from necessity,
Il, y, prlnciple; he was as honest as
4. AL. and as steady and as punet-
II :. I'M clock OF Saint Walbnrga 5.
4 ooly ailment was hunger; his
n weakness and extravaganza
800 ID the siekly little girl whom
u dsad wife had left him when she
II IA alltheluck be had ever known
q
u
a|lls lIttle girlhad goneto a hungry
q y. while he, in his bare attic, was
4 niing pair Of pantaloons by the
N 81 a candle end, And they
4 10 common pair OF Pantaloons.
tbey had been intimately nc.
tinted with the limbs Of no less a
r.onage than Elias Lewis himself,
II ~ they had wanted no much
u sdi.r that Cans wondered, in tile
& Il u an his anxieties for bis
e,ghep. thar SO rich a man should
n such . pair Of pantnloons
II ,slel instead Of thrown away.
II ! pefhaps that very wonder con.
n "a The secret Of his own poverty.
II | sas srich as Herr Lewis, "
II thought, fsueh vain imagination
IL q h eallayi thinking. I'D keep
N trade going BY having a brand
suit every year, and never wear
Ii ia one. and ia have the best
Il tors ior Grotchcn: and when shg
n quite aell, and as straight and
n pg,,y al l,rr mother, ia giyet'ie
N 4 laii that ever was seen, and
h ,Asrs -sliauonds--
ai ais THREAD snapped. and with
u lhrai the very beginnings % his
u am. Feathers diam on,ls when
g,shsn wns moaning even In heg
\ 'rish sleep with hunger. and her
n asg bad not penny in prospect
h tomorrow for even tho price o.
Il present pnliry job had b'en paid
advana and spent before Il was
n mad
Il ~ sell my very soul, said hc. ~
u iurhel the garment ankles mp
Il ri 70 get ~ the lrbycd edges. so
st;aln 81 getting the child's crust
smother lay.
AlmnsI % Dc spoke something
q zied az his tcst upon the floor
hiking Il might 10 one Of Herr
n u metal buttons, ho went down
n % kbuuds mud knees to find Ii
Nj ; The help Of his candle end. aud,
ta good minutes search. saw,
n 10 q crack between tho boards.
n oliiary guldcu, we'll nigh as much
III Eorse Tor wear ns the pnntaloons
2 whose PROCESSES 1t had fallen.
N qor Cans sighed. IL was TOD
nj q ut ul Fortune to mock h i'm
- distress with the sight OF an.
m g mans money. Awholc guldenl
IA i vas wealth TO man who
w nothing. and--but there, there
m ! 20 use d thinking Of II, when IL
IL !, 20 more his than my portion
@ ,ieiF Lewis millions. So he set his
N V and finished his Job. badly
II aga, but as we'll as he could, aud
I lay down in a corner 10 rest.
M u Eaistcoat for u pillow, In
IA nc had slowed the guldcn for
y and, though he contrived to
n III tne sense Of the guardianship
III \ \ I whole gulden nil at once dis.
M " MN with strange drcams-ho
III al,ed that he was Herr Lewis,
saat Herr Lewis wns Cans
'IeseIlen was no better the next
a',g her lever had grown.
I N, 700 sad and hopeless even 60
" Y made MP the pnntaloons into
",ile ielt that the gulden was
.. aaa set out TO restore both co
n ~. ,pioyer, u master tailor, with
WI " agood uuarter.
sua Tine morning, but the
"i w, Of thesunshine only made
e all the more miserable.
" ny, M shame II was 60 see SO many
Hi w ana happy children laughing
u !, Jumping ON their way TO school,
NM !" !, mink Of his Gretchen, posi-.
N wing before his eyes--of her,
INV, Saght to DO the hcalthiest and
~ NY J, o. them all--ot her for
!, IN There was neither school. nor
81 WIKI SJr even food. Tint guiden,
4 Ipsll be Thought so much thnt