The Press., 1892-12-08

N been among all my days. She gave me a daisy, and asked me if knew whc made it. And when l said l didn't know, unless it came of itself, she named God to me. Nobody had named God to me before except in oaths.
 "Do tire you, sir" said Padihain. .swith this talk about myself?
 ..Certainly not: you interest me great ly."
 .sThe old gentleman will hardly be ready to see you yet. It is almost nine, and at the stroke of nine he has his break fast. I always go up then to give him good morning. You can go with me.
 Meantime, tell me how you found them again"
 ..I found them by drawing of hers. But I will go on straightforward with my story. : A
 .sI couldn't stay dolt, though had to drudge for many day after first saw little Ellen, and she gave me the daisy and named God to me. Whenever could get away, and that was only once 8 quarter or half year, went up to see her. She made friend of me, and told me to take care of her father. He was, very much down, quite broken and help less, with just enough strength to do half his appointed work. So helped him with the rest.
 .After long time the owners found out that he had education, and they took him into the office. All the men were sorry to lose Gentleman Hugh. and when he went lost heart and took to drinking up my miserable earnings with the rest. There l was, a drudge in the dark and getting to be a drunkard, when Gentleman Hugh came to me and told me how some one had left him legacy, and must get out of the pit and share with him. He said little Ellen would not be happy unless she had me.
 'So he took me up into the air and sun and put me to school. But l could never learn much out of books. Put tools in my hands and can make things, and that is what my business is in the world. You see those arms, well made as your own. You see those hands, strong as vice, and those fin gers, fine as woman's. They are tools and able to handle tools, The rest of my body is stunted; my brain is stunted I'm no fool; but Pm not the man l ought to be. Every day feel that l cannot put my thoughts into the highest form"
 "Every man of any power feels that, Isaid, "by whatever machinery his power finds expression . -.
 "Perhaps SO. We'll, when MT. .Clith- eroe had once given me start in the open air, and had got tools in my hands, pretty soon they began to talk of me as one of the masters In Lancashire, There's 8 great call in England for thorough workmen. came up to London. fell in with the gentleman who sent you here, and got on well. There's as much good work goes out of this little shop as out of some big establishments with great names over the door. People try to get me to start great shop and make a great fortune and have George Padi- ham talked about. But I'm Dwarf George, born in coal mine and stunted in coal mine, and Lamely court. with my little shop in the basement, suits me best. g@. ..s.-.s.. $,
 .I never forgot how owed all my good luck to Gentleman Hugh and my dear little Ellen. If it had not been for them I should have died underground of hard work before thirty, as most of my mates did. Their help of me gave me a kindly feeling toward broken down gen tlefolks. owed the class my luck, and when got on and had money to spend, having no one of my own to spend it for, I looked up people as badly off as Gen. tleman Hugh was when first knew him and helped them. They are a hard class to help-proud as Lucifer sometimes, with their own kind. took this house here, out of the way as much as any spot i'm London. Whenever knew of gen. tleman or gentlewoman given out or worn out so they could not take care of themselves, brought them in here. If they were only given out put stuff into them again, cheered them up and found some work for them to do. Gentlefolks are not sRch fools if they only had edu- cation. If I found one that was worn out beyond all patching packed him into a snug corner up stairs and let him
 lie there. They like it better than pub' lie hospitals and retreats. scA1 the while was getting on and getting rich in small way, with some small shares in patents I own. But kept my eye on Gentleman Hugh. knew what would come to him, and never took in ten shillings that did not put away one for him and his daughter.
 sI knew of his going to America witE the Mormops, damn 'em! went down to ClitheFoe to persuade him to give up the plan. He would not. He quarreled with me-our first hard words. He for bade his daughter to write to me. r-,-
 "I knew he would come back some time or other, stripped and needy. watched the packets lists of passengers. He did not come under his own name; but saw last winter an old Lancashire name on list of arrivals-the name of that wornout shaft where Ellen had picked the daisy for me. It was favor ite spot of his. Part of his money had gone down it, and he used to sit and stare into it as if the money was going to bubble up again. I traced them by that to London. Here for time 1 lost them. .....~
 ''He got very low in London-poor old manw continued Padiham.
 Nothing dishonest, hope" said l.
 "No, no. Only gambling, with a crazy hope of getting even with the world again. In this way he spent all that he had left, and Ellen's hard earnings be- sides. It made him wild for her to re- fuse him; so she was forced to give him all that she could spare all except just epoHgh to pay for poor place to live in and poorer fare. She never knew where he spent the long nights; she only saw him creep back to his garret ip the early morning destitute and half alive.
 'tBut I promised you to talk as short as could. must tell you how found them. The poor gentle folks that take care of generally know something of ornamental work that they learned to dc for play when they were better off. set them at doing what they can do. best and sell it for them. There is always f