The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-23

tive New Yorker. with white hair and a
dark noustacha. who remarked:
We'll. there's one thing i like about
New York. and that is Wall street,
when stocks are moving. / was long on
Lackawanna last week nore's the
pity-but Charley opdyke cleaned up
matter of ten thousand by keeping on
the right side of the market Now,
Bartwick. I'll give you . tip on Man
hs.tan Elevated. that you can paste
in your hat
Gene" said the ghost. taking his
companion by the arm.
Hold on" cried Scrooge. trying vain
Is to cling to his chair. its not often
that / &c, a good polnter from the spir-
Il world, and this one ought to be worth
something.
Come, repeated the Spirit stcrDly.
as he dragged him away. IF you made
money fl3ssn that pointer. as you call
Il. you would not earn IL; II would be
simply taken away from somebody else.
In Altruria stock gambling IS I'M
known"
Then New York Is good enough for
me-" retorted Scrooge. as the two dis
appeared through the front wall of The
building
Schooge was wide awake when the
clock struck two. and the third Of his
EhoStly visitors materialized on the
moonlit floor Slowly the phantom a7-
preached. and as it came near him.
Cerooge saw that 1t wore the share 81 a
heavy jewed, srnooth-faced man, cloth
cd in evening dress and wearing long
hair that fell down over his shoulders
u
4ae fruit or the finest tonSorial art and
designed as A safe and harmless sub
s,itute for genius.
The spirit crossed the room with lead
en- footsteps and with an air Of such ex-
IRENE physical exhaustion as 70 convey
the idea that he had just returned from
a hard days work.
II am weary and no mistake" said
the Spirit, for an the world as IL Scrooge
had voiced the thought uppcrmoSt in
his mind. and so would you be il you
were ia my place. for have been max
ing brilliant British epigrams all day
long and my back is alnost broken with
toll. Bat come with me. FOR / am the
ghost q Christmas yet 70 come, and
have much 20 show YOU"
whittier are you taking me- de-
uandcd Scnoge weakly as they noatcd
across the city and far out over the
gray tossing sea
We are going - the land where the
Dodo dWeils and The yellow aster
blooms rejoiaed the SPIRIT. sternly
what That woman y l1o Is funny at
breakfast" exclaimed his horror-strs *
en- companion.
The same" replied the inexorahle
one pointing. - be spoke. 10 she long.
gray coast hne that stretched out be-
fore them
Descending into the heart 81 rich roll
! ing country. they entered a veT-kept
/ English park. passed without any din
Guilty through the halls OF an El4z 4bethan
manor house and found themselves in
a brilliantly lighted dining rom in
/ vyhich large company vas assenbsss.
I ~ the head II the table SIT ,he host.
I . tai, powerfully ba.it 1san, on whose
+ Ease was the awful pallo- that p-esaEes
/ an uatime!y end
4 way IS t1-at strong n1aa doomed 20
+ whispered Scrooge.
listen said the Spirit, sternly, and
/ you wln disSTer-'
/ Al the other end OF thu table Young
T vaogman whose aristccratIc lineage was
& revealed ~ her large Splay feet end
( atrysaous taste IN dress. WAS keeping
1sr nelghbS1Ts IN rosrs - laughter with
+ Aer aTtgzs'' conversation
tEJw alice Z wousd oe II one coeili
I have tail 10 ~sag vaen one felt han
/ Pr slae exclaimed. with a EsSck gray