The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-22

sides five hundred pounds IN crisp
bills was more real money than oap-
tain Toward Walker was accustomed
to have in his possession all at once
and he Immediately began to caicu-
late how it conld be increased ana
multiplied into a plum-fof ne WAS q
dashinG, sansuine fellow. hat old
the captain do with this money why
he furnished a neat and elegant mousse
in the EdgeWare Road: he ordered a
service of plate, he sported 2 phaeton
and two ponies; he kept q couple o.
smart maids and groom. footboy-1n
short he mounted just such q neat
unpretenSing g~entleInanlike esta bllsh-
ment as becomes a respectable young
couple on their outset in life. i've
SoNn my wild OATS he would say to
his acquaintances. "A few years ago,
perhaps, j would haEe longed to cut
a dash; but now prudence is the Word
and I've settled every farthlng or
| Mrs. Walkers fifteen thousand on her-
self" And the best proof that the
world had confidence in him is that
for the articles Of plate, e%quipage and
furniture mentioned he did not have
to pay a shilling. Had it not been
for postage stamps. t~urnpikes and
taxes he would hardly have had occa-
sion to change one Of tho f~Ve-pound
notes Morgiana had brought him.
To tell the truth, Mr.. Walker deter
mined to make his fortune-and what
is easier? Do not Spanish and Colon
bian bonds rise and fall? For what
are companies invented but to place
thousands in the pockets OF promoters
and shareholders? The gallant cap
tain plunged into the stock market
| with dash and enthusiasm, made sew
era1 brilliant hits at first, and his name
began to be known as that Of q Using
capitalist and might be seen in the
list Of directors Of many excellent and
phjlanthropic schemes, Of which there
! is never a dearth in London. Poor
Byzantine, as he saw the captain ar
rive daily in his pony phaeton at his
offices and heard of the start he had
made in life, used to hate him madly.
Morgiana's only regret now was that
business occupied so much of her hlS-
bands time day and night that she
did not see much of him. Old Mrs.
Crump used to go almost daily to the
house in Edgeware road to see her
daughter. Of whose marriage she was
Unfortunately proud and boastfui, but
she went there when the captain was
not at home, for, of course, Mrs.
Crump could not be received int the
society which her daughter now began
to frequent. Walker used to bring
home some OF his great a~cquaintances
TO dinner occasionally and there were
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two attorneys ladies, Towards bill
brokers' lady and a few more of whom
the least said the better, though their
names sounded grand. and poor Nor
Siapa, who did not knOw-how should
h ?-thought it a great honor to be
SO distinguished.
Among their purchases for the
house in Edgeware Road was a beau
tifuI little rosewood piano, and the
| whole naiph c0Il1R hear Nor
gina at it continually, her voice
gurgling and Quiverins and shaking
as ladies do when they practice. This
took Up fOur-ffths of her time, and
so Walkers ackbir in it's snug little
cage sang on and was not unhappy.
| Mrs. Walker first had for a teacher
little Podmore. the fat chorus master
at the Wells He grounded her
well and bade her eschew the singing
Of those popular ballads in which her
heart delighted. When he a brought
her to a certain point of skill the
honest fellow said she should have a
better instructor and wrote q note to
Captain Walker, saying most ~fiatter-
ing things about Mrs. Walkers ability
and recommending that she take les
sons of the celebrated Baroski. So
the Captain diInissed POdmore and
engaged Baroski at a vast
as he did not fail to tell his wife.
Id III IOS was Ol1o Oh IHe
chief ornaments of h musical pro-
fession in london. He had written
operas and charged a guinea a lesson
for three-quarters Of an hour abroad
Added to this he had a school at his
own residence, where pupils assem-
bled in considerable numbers. The
prima donna of this little COMPANY
was Amelia Iarkins, BarOski's owr
articled pupil, upon whose future
reputation Baroski staked his owr
and whose profits he was to share
Has not all the world seen her since
at the Theatres Royal and in Am erica
as Miss Ligonier? When Baresk
came to give Mrs. Wake her music
lesson Mrs. Crump was always or
hand like a guardian dragon. It was
easy tt see that the great musician
was nightly smitten with the Ravens
wing.
At Baroski's little exhibitions Mrs
WoiEar soon achieved a fama ac ,