The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-13

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to forty thousand yearl With an in
come Of forty thousand year You
grudge three and sixpence. Well, then,
I'll tell you my opinion / SO despise the
| threepence that I'd sooner take three
shillinss. There. For three shillings,
three shillings, three shillings! Gonel
Hand 'en over to the lucky man.
! AS there had been no bid at all every
body looked about and ssrinned at every
body, while touched little Sophy's face
and asked her if she felt faint or giddy.
"yot very, father. 1t will soon be over.
Then turning from the pretty patient
Eyes, which were opened now, and see
Ing nothing but grins across my lighted
grease pot I went on again in my Cheap
Jack style. where's the butcher (my
| sorrowful eye had just caught sight Of a
fat young butcher on the outside of the
crowd "She says the good luck is the
butchers. Where Is hep Everybody
handed on the blushing hatcher to the
| front, and there was a roar, and the
butcher felt obliged TO put his hand in
his pocket and take the lot The party
| 90 picked out, in general. does feel obliged
! TO take the lot-good four times out of
six. Then we had another lot, the coun-
terpart of that one, and sold it sixpence
cheaper, which is always very much en-
joyed. Then we had the spectacles. 1t
amt a special profitable lot, but put
em on. and ! see what the chancellor Of
the exchequer is going to take off the
taxes. and see what the sweetheart of
cl4,
at home, and see what the bishops has
got for dinner, and deal more that sell
dom fails to fetch EN- up in their spirits,
and the better their spirits the better their
bids. Then we had the ladies lots-the
teapot, tea caddy. glass sugar basin, half
a dozen spoons and p caudle cup-and
all the time was making similar excuses
to give a look or two and say word or
two to my poor child. It was while the
second ladies' lot was holding 'em EN-
chained that felt her lift herself little
on my shoulder to look across the dark
street. "What troubles you, darling2'
Nothing troubles me. father. am not
at all troubled But don't see a pretty
churchyard over thereg Yes, my DEAR
kiss me twice, dear father, and lay me
down to rest upon that churchyard grass
so soft and green. staggered back
into the cart with her head dropped on
my shoulder. and says to her mother:
"Quickl Shut the door! Don't let those
laughing people seer Whats the mat
terY" she cries. '.Oh, woman, womanr'
tells her, you'll never catch my little
Sophy by her hair again. for she has
flown away from your
Maybe those were harder words than
meant EN-; but from that time forth
my wife took to brooding, and would
sit in the cart or walk beside it hours at
stretch, with her arms crossed and
her eyes looking on the ground. When
her furies took her (Which was rather
schooner than beforel they took her in a
new way, and she banged herself about
to that extent that was forced to hold
her She got none the better for little
drink now and then, and through some
years | used to wonder, as | plodded
along at the old horses head, whether
there was many carts upon the road that
held SO much dreariness as mine, for all
my being looked up to as tho king of the
Cheap Jacks. So sad our lives went on
till one summer evening. when we were
coming into Exeter out Of the farther
west of England, we saw woman beat
ing child in cruel manner, who
screamed, Don't beat me! Oh, mother,
mother, motherl' Then my wife stopped
her ears and ran away like wild thing,
and next day she was found in the river.
Ne and my dog were all the company
left in the cart now, and the dog learned
to give short bark when they wouldn't
bid, and to give another and nod of his
head when asked him, Who said half
a CROWN Are you the gentleman, sir,
that offered half a CROWN He attained
to an immense height Of popularity, and
shall always believe taught himself en-
tirely out of his own head to growl at
any person in the crowd that bid as low
as sixpence. But he got to be well on in
years, and one night when | was con-
wulsing York with the spectacles, he
took a conwulsion on his own account
upon the very footboard by me. and it
finished him.
Being naturally of tender turn,
had dreadful lonely feelings on me arter
this. / conquered 'em at selling times,
having a reputation to keep (not to mem
ton keeping myself, but they got me
down in private and rolled upon me.
That's the way with us public characters.
See us on the footboard, and you'd give
pretty well anything you possess to be
us. See us off the footboard, and you'd
add trife to be off your bargain. It
was under those circumstances that
come acquainted with a giant. might
have been too high to fall into converse
ton with him had it not been for my
lonely feelings. For the general rule is,
going round the country. to draw the
| line at dressing up When man can't
trust his getting living to his undis-
| guised abilities you consider him below
| your sort And this giant when ON view
figured as a Roman,
He was languid young man, which
attribute to the distance betwixt his ex-
trernities. He had little head and less
in it; he had weak eyes and weak knees,
and altogether you couldn't look at him
without feeling that there was greatly
too much Of him both for his joints and
his mind. But he was an amiable
though tirnid young man (his mother let
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