The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-13
By J. w. MULLER

lender, dealing with ariStocratic
clients, and he decided With unwilling
wrath, that it wonld be wiser to pro-
vide tor his relatives, as promptly and
economically IS possible.
he used his influence (Mr- Nicklebv
had q great de..l of secret influence
with curious pecple) to obtain for
Nlcholae I position as tutor with Mr..
ackiord StiHtsrS, proprietor and
principal g Dotneboys Hall a semi
nary of refined learning together with
elevated homo Influences in y Yorkshire.
MI. Squetrs contracted to pay his
new assistant five pounds salary
year besd. endowing him with
! BOARD and lodging and the society Of
his faml,
The Nicklebys were a little inclined
TO caVil at the amount of the salary:
but Mr.. Nickleby appealed to Mrs.
Nlckleby us a woman of the world,
polite measure which set Mrs. Nick
/ leby at once to reviewing all the af-
| fairs in her life and the life of her
! friends and remote acquaintances that
! mad gone wrong because her advice
/ was not taken. Having concluded
this retrospect, she pronounced her
self as being of Mr.. Ralph Nickleby's
! opinion that the situation presented a
! magnificent opening, whose POSSIBLE
ties hardly could be estimated.
/ Her worldly shrewdness survived
even her sight of MIR. SQueers. MIR.
I Squeers had only one eye but it made
up for its lack of numbers by being
q little more NillainOus than the full
complement Of most eyes could be
1t was an appropriate eye, for it
| cleaned .tSh-like out of Il face that
was even more villaninous than the
eye.
Mrs. Eickleby succeeded so well in
swallowing Mr.. Squeers that before he
and Nicholas We're we'll on their way
to Yorkshire, she pictured her son as
returning to accept a position as head
master of Westminster School
AS soon as Nicholas was out Of the
way, kindly old Uncle Ralph used his
influence with Mrs. Mantalini. a fash
lonable dressmaker, to get Kate q po-
sition as milliner's assistant. Kate
had hoped to find position as
teacher, and Mrs. Nickleby had shared
the hope SO far that she had, alrea dy,
pictured the schools proprietor as en-
:, tering the estate of widowerhood and
making Kate his second wife. Mrs
NicklebyS first idea Of a milliner con-
jured up persons whom she had seen
on the streets carrying wicker baskets
lined with black oilskin. A timely
reference by Ralph to her mental
acumen as q woman Of the world dis
l PEELED This image in favor Of a large
house at the West End, a neat pri-
vate carriage and a bank-b book.
t Before Ralph had quite finished
speaking. she saw herself living with
her daughter of "Mantalini and Nick
J, leby,' in mansion on the 50 me stree
: with the house Of her son, the heat
. master of Westminster.
! Unfortunately. Mrs. Mantalni fail
9 ed; and Mrs. Nickleby told Kate that
: as she had said again and again, Z
: dressmaking business was the last t
4 which she should have attached her
y self. She was too generous to make
Y it a reprOach to her daughter, bu
she did feel constrained to say that j
n Kate had consulted her mother
y things would have been different
0 Mrs. Nickleby considered the affai
f in all it's minutest bearings till a neV
It opening gave her new subject Kat
It found a position as companion to
t. Mrs. Wititterly, who was very nearl
G in society. 1t was the very thing tina
n she always had advised, cried Mrs
d Nickleby.
y Don't you remember hearing YOU
is papa speak, asked she, of the youn
lady who Was daughter to the oil
d lady who boarded in the same hous
d that he boarded in once when he wa
It a bachelor-What was her nam
IT again? l know it began with 3 an
h ended with a E. but whether it wa
Is Waters ONO 1t couldn't have bee
If that either; but whatever her nam
g was that young lady went as com
panion to a married lady who die
er soon afterward, and she married tn
" husband and had one OF the fines
at little boys ever seen; and all with
~ in eighteen months.
e Mrs Wititterly was graciOusl
N pleased to engage Miss Nickleby afte
IL she and Mr.. Wititterly had explaine
N that Mrs. Wittterly was sufferin
y from too much soul and needed in
mense consideration. On the wa
IN home. Mrs. Nickleby expressed he
Nv fear that the lady was wearing he1
in self out, and before they entered the
~ own door she was trying to declc
ne whether she would have the two pa
at back of Mr.. Wititterly'S house for M
H. bedroom or the three PAIR IRON
~ She adjusted the matter at last {
n. deciding to leave it to her son-iI
10 Ia Wy