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The Deacon's Masterpiece:
Olt TITS IVONDERFL'L -ONI3-110SS-StIAY.,,
DT OLIVET: 'Wti:NDELL lIOLSISI
Have you heard of the wonderful omahosa-shay,
That was Will in such a logical way
It no, a hundred yearn to a day.
And then, of a au 1110,11.-0. but slay,
VII tell yon what happened without delay;
Starling the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their wits,—
HIVIC you ever heard of that, I so)?
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Geergi us Second its was then alive,—
n airy old drone from the German hive!
That W 421 the year when Li-bon town
Saw the earth open and gulp lier 110VVII.
And nraddadn• army ryas done go brown,
Left without n scalp to its crown.
It was on the terriWo Earthquake day
That the Deacon finished the one-Loss-sltny
Now in building of chaises, I'll tell you what,
There is always somewhere a weakest spoi., 7 -
In hub, tire. fel'oe, in spring or [hill,
In panel, or crossbar. or floor, or
In screw. bolt. thoroughbrace.—lurking still
Find it somewhere you must and will,—
Above cir below, or within or without.—
And that is tic reason, beyond a doubt,
A chaise breaks down, bn doesn't wear out.
But the Deacon swore (a• Deacon , : do
%VIOL un "I dew vain " or an ••I tell yrou. - )
He would but4l one •hsy to heat tea• tnowu
'II' the keounty 'it' till the kentry raount'i
It should be to built that it eati/dit' break d ,01+411
—"Fur." said the Deacon, •"t'- intality plain
Thin the wenkes' place inns' ,tatt , the mraitt;
'a' the way t' fix it. at. I 111111111:1111,
ouly je,t
To make that I. nee ea won. ez the rest"
So the 0.-neoll inquired of the village folic
IVltere he could luta stn oug.e,t o.nk.
That could Ibe -pint nor boa nor broke,—
Th it was for .popes m d floor and sills;
He sent for .aneeevoed to make the thibo;
The cm chars were a -In, f‘oan the 5tr..1,01e.1 trees;
The panels of whitewood. runt en:. like cheese,
But itto. lice iron for thong like these;
Tile Innths of logs from the -Settler's Ellum,"
Last of its tiniber.—they couldn't orb 'lent,—
Never on axe bad .e., their clops.
And the Wedge. heir ,rout between their lips,
Their:Punt cods f.i/zled like eelery-ups;
Step nod prop trll, bolt and screw,
Sprung. tire. axle. and linchpin on,
Steel of the fin , ot. bright annul bate;
Thorouglihroee tluel: and wide;
Boot. top. dasher, iron, tough old hide
Found in the pit when the hunter fined.
That WV, the way he - put her tlirough. , —
, There!" sand the Deacon, ',mow she'd dew!"
Do: I tell you, I rather cztte‘s
SSe was :1 Wonder. and nothing less!
Colt; prow Lines, beards turned gray,
DenCOn nod denvolly.. , dropped away,
Children and grand-children—where were they?
Bat there stood the stout old one-lio,q-shay
As [rean as oil Lisbon-earthquake-day!
FavarracN acsnara,—d came and found
The De.tecni. ina,terineee strong and sound
Eighteen hundred ineren,ed ten:—
"Ilahnsum kerridge they called it then.
Eighteen hundred and twenty came;—
Running an usual; ranch the sante.
Thirty mind forty at IllSt arrive,
And then came fifty and fifty-five.
Pule of all we value here
NVakee on the morn of its hundredth year
Without bo It feeling and looking queer.
In fart, there's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
(This is a moral that runs at large;
Take it.—You'ra welcome —Pio extra charge.)
FIRST OP NOVIDSPER.—IIie eurthquakeLdny.—
There Are traces of age in the one-Loss-shay,
A general flavor of mid decay,
But nothing focal a= one may any.
There couldn't be,—for the Dencon's art
Bad made it so like in every port
That there wasn't a chance fur one to start.
For the wheels were lust as strong us the Mills,
And the floor wa+ jug a , . strong n•:be sills,
And the pannelsjusi as strong as the floor,
And tile whippletree neither ies , i nor snore,
And the back eras-bar as strong as the fore,
And sprung and axle and hub encore
/Ind yet, as a whole, it as past a doubt
/n another hour It will be worn out!
Pint of November, 'fifty-liv e !
This monting the pa rson take< a drive.
Now, small boy+, get out of the way!
/fere comes the wonderful one•ho«-.hay,
Prawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.
°iluddup!' said the parson.-01twent they.
The parson was workinn bin Sunday's text,—
nod got a fifthly. and stopped rrerplrxea
ft; what the—ftleses-14,1S comur,r, next.
4% I/ at once the !tease mood still.
Clove by the meet' s '-houve on the hill.
e—First n shiver, and then a thrill,
Then somrtlaum decidedly bite a spill,—
And the parson was sitting upon n rock,
half-past nine by the meet's -house
Just the hour of the earthquake shock:
,--What do you think the pamon found,
'Wien he got up and stared around?
The poor old dative in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and emend!
You see, of course. if you're not a dunce,
Dow it went to pieces all at once,—
All et once. and nothing Graz,—
Just as bubbles do when tney burst.
End of the wonderful one-hams-shay
Logic is logic. That's all I say.
bar"' wish to procure the Biography of
Pollock," said a student to the bookseller at
the corner of Water street, Boston.—"We
have it not, sir," was the reply.—" Can you
inform me where I can obtain it?"—"I can
ikOt, sir; but I dare say you will find it in
the 'Course of Time! "
My godfather was a man in a thousand.
He possessed an iron will and a degree of
perseverance which impelled him having
once resolved on a thing, to execute it at all
hazards. Hiscareerwas cited generally as a
wonderful example of luck; but the word
"luck" ought never to have been used with
respect to him, since no man ever owed less
to mere good fortune than himself. He had
worked his own way, literally by hair
breadths at first: and I believe one of his
grand elements of success was his determi
nation never to owe to the aid of another
what he could, by any amount of labor, ac
complish himself. Self-dependence, perse
verance, steady resolution and industry,
were the various component parts of which
my godfather's "luck" was made up. I
can see this now I am old and grey; but
who reasons thus on his eighth birth-day?
I did not; but having heard the above abused
term "lucky," so often applied to my god
father, I regarded him as one favored by
some good protecting genius, whose invisi
ble hands removed everything calculated to
obstruct success.
ECIM
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My godfather always dined at our house
on my birth-day. On its eighth anniver
sary he filled his usual place at the board,
and to this day I can see him exactly as he
looked then. His hair, white enough by
nature, was powdered, and tied in a queue.
He had a wide and also high forehead, with
thick, snowy-white shaggy eye-brows over
hanging such keen black eyes. His dress
was always handsome; his shirt-frills like
very snow-flakes, his htickles resplendent
with diamonds. He dressed becomingly,
because he considered that, like everything
else, worth being done well if worth being
done at all. On each succeeding birth-day
especially, though not then alone, I received
substantial proofs of his good will towards
myself—always wonderfully appropriate,
generally something I had actually longed
for.
Doubtless his keen appreciation of char
acter and habits of observation would enable
him to guess what .Would afford me most
pleasure. I thought an invisible agent
I need me, and reported accordingly. I
therefore received his gifts with awe, and
cherished them as I did no other of my early
possessions.
It was after dinner, then, on my eighth
birth-day. I was full of wonder as to the
corning present; for, contrary to usual cus
tom, no outward visible sign, no parcel her.
aided the gi t. "Has he," thought I, "can
he have guessed what I so much wish for?" I
My longing, be it known, was, that the se
cret of his "luck" might be revealed to me.
I could feel my heart throb, though my
breath was almost suspended, a., in !
ance with his request, I went to his side.—
"Francis,"
said he, "hold out your hand."
I obeyed. Ire placed an antique guinea in
the extended palm. “Francis, that guinea
was given to me when I was eight years old.
Had I not noticed the care you take of my
gifts, I should riot, after preserving it more
than half a century, now give it to you.—
"Yes," ho said, "that guinea was the found
atiou of my fortune. I had never before
owned such - a sum when it came into my
possession; but I determined to gain more.
Some people," he added, "would call it a
lucky guinea, and if it be, I am :atisfied to
transfer it to you. May you be as prosper
ous in your career as I have been, and from
the same cause! Pray guard it carefully;
and remember, as hang as you possess that
you will never be in want of money."
I did not see the stately smile on my
godfather's face, or understand the laugh of
my other elders at the old-fashioned com
mon-place which concluded his harangue.
I was absorbed in an awful feeling of re
sponsibility—in the thought that my god
father indeed possessed supernatural power,
bad divined my wish, and not only revealed
to me the secret of his "luck," but had
placed in my hands the talisman which was
also to secure my own. For many nights
after I scarcely slept. I exulted in the ros
session of my treasure; but it was with
trembling, for if I should lose it! A cold
perspiration covered me at the bare idea of
such a calamity.
I was sorely puzzled where to find a safe
repository fur it. At !cog-till persuadedmy
mother to make a little wash-leather bag
with an outer covering of silk, in which 1
placed my guinea, and hung it round my
neck by a black ribbon. Year after year
did the feeling that its preservation was es
' sential to my well-being continue predomi
nant; and lung after the gentle mother who
smiled at my whim and humored it was
dead, the guinea hung by the black ribbon
in its usual place. My career at school and
college proved successful; my tutors praised
ray industry, fellow-students said I was the
hardest reader in the University, my friends
sang my praises as a genius, and I smiled,
and played with the ribbon whence de
pended my godfather's guinea. How could
I be otherwise than fortunate? You may
laugh and call this weakness, but it influ
enced me; nevertheless I laughed also, and
with good cause—l won. At twentythrce
I left college, free. Free from all care for
the morrow, since those who were "born
before mu" had taken that upon themselves;
free from control, since my guardian's juris
diction ended at the usual time, and his
death—for my godfather was the individual
[Allantic Monthly
gthttiints.
My Godfather's Guinea.
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1858.
—happening soon a fter my majority. greatly
increased my already abundant means.
I bad been a great student; but now r re
solved to see something of life; I would
spend sometime in travel before settling
down. But first I must go to see Dr. Carle
ton, an old friend of my father's, resident
in Derbyshire, whose eldest son bad just
taken possession of my vacated rooms at
Cambridge.
Most studious men are awkward on en
tering society—l was extremely so; but
Mrs. Carleton proved my good genius, fn•
she had the rare art of making all domesti
cated under her roof feel at home. When
I saw her, with her group of olive-branches
and genial-hearted husband gathered round
the hearth, I was a very boy again in my
delight at forming one of the social party.
Dr. Carleton's profession engaged much of
of his time; but weariness or ennui was un
known under the roof of Mrs. Carleton.—
W ith her I was a lad; and On my return
from a ramble, she invariably called for a
relation of my doings, when forthwith I
flung myself on tile rug at her feet, and
gave a full and particular account. I ran
sacked my memory to tunu , e "mamma," as
I called her; and, amongst other things,
gave her a halr-je , ting, hair-earnest, but
wholly whimsical and itturginative, history
of my godfather's guinea. She in turn told
the doctor, and the same evening expressed
a wish to see the talisman. I drew out the
little case, still suspended; but that was nut
enough, she must see the coin itself. I hes
itated, but her merry laugh conquered; and
after fifteen years' concealment the guinea
again saw the light.
I scarcely liked to see it in any hand but
my own, though I was in a manner com
pelled to submit; and it was examined, duly
compared with a new one, and replaced in
my hand just as a visitor entered.
Next day, Dr. Carleton and I went for a
long drive through the most charming part
of that romantic district "the Iligh Peak,"
and combined the agreeable with the useful
by calling on such of Carleton's patients no
lay in our way. 'Wending homeward to
wards evening, we stopped at the house of
a gentleman on whom he had lately been in
ttendenec; but the pati cm was emir:descent ;
and the call—the most agreeable a doctor
eau make, at least for the patient, and let
us in charity hope fu• himself also—a friendly
one. I awaited his return, sitting ill the
gig; and feeling chilly, enveloped myself in
the servant's cloak, byaccident brought with
us. I was running over in my mind all the
lovely bits or scenery I had passed through,
when a smart tog at lay cloak aroused my;
and a pretty damsel banded me up a glass
of beer, accompanied by the whisper, "1
have brought you something to drink."
I had the affair in a moment. The pluck
at my cloak, and the verbal intimation that
followed, convinced me I was mistaken fir
the servant; so I determined tuba% e a laugh
ut the expense of my generous Ilebe. I
readily accepted the brimingcup, -0, thank
you; I gust wanted such adraught, and lire
lieve Providence has sent you with it, for I
see you are an angel." She tried to nut 011
a frown, but the pretty face would not ac
commodate itself to the needful lines and
angles. She then looked up slyly in my
face, pouted out her lips as far as a strug
gling smile would permit, and replied.—
..1101d your bother, drink your beer; your
master will behere in a minute." I readily
complied with the first and most material of
this advice; I drank the beer—no difficult
task when arnan is thirsty and the draught
good Derbyshire burnt:brewed; but hold my
bother, I did not: on the contrary, no I re
turned the glass I heaved a deep sigh, partly
to revive suspended respiration after my
draught, and partly—l like economy even
in sighing—to express the state of my feel
ings toward herself. I was sadly puzzled
how to say something complimentary, not
being used to that sort of timing, and at
length blundered out amdrardly enough, "I
wish I'd never seen you: I don't beliese
shall ever be happy again; and if I'm not,
won't you have something to answer fur,
that's all."
"How you talk!" answered she. "Why
shouldn't you be happy? I've done nothing
to hinder you."
"Do you call it nothing to come giving a
fellow beer just to steal his heart?"
"You're wily- poking fun at me," was the
reply; but her pretty coquetish air and con
chins half smile, which, try as she would
she sould not screw into a frown, convinced
rue my compliments, though clumsily ex
ecuted, were duly appreciated.
"Now do," said 1, "be serious, and tell
me if you have a sweetheart; and if not, if
you think you could manage a little shop.
To my fancy, you're just the right sort of
article; for I know lots of customers would
come for the sake of being waited on by
such pretty smiling girl."
Again she looked in my face, but this
time as grave as a judge, and with an ex
pression on her own of the most complete
innocence and candor answered thoughtful
ly, "Well, to be sure, there's Jim Allen has
followed me this good while; but if I look at
any body else he quarrels, and is always
Raying he'll go 'lint for a soldier; so there's
no depending—and—and—l always did
think I should like to keep a shop."
At this most critical moment a stop was
heard and the noise sent off my fair enslaver
with the speed of an antelope. Little was
she, or for,tho matter of that was I, pro
pared for the approaching denouement.—
Carleton bad accepted for both of us an in-
citation to dinner, which meal happened to
be an utmally late, a , his friend: , had company.
After the best toilet circumstances would
permit, we entered the dining roost. Front
my knowledge of our host's family habits, I
felt sure of seeing my shopkeeper in per
spective; and the first bustle of introduction
over, I glanced round, and soon exught sight
of her. Exactly opposite, still as a statue,
her mouth open to no gre;.t width, the said
feature being of most moderate dimensions,
with her eyes round as bird's, she stood the
picture of astonishment. In one respect
she was unlike a statue, for she was as red
as scarlet—face, neck and arms all in a glow.
The instant she caught my amused look she
busied her.•elf at the sideboard, and vouch
safed no second glance.
We stayed very late; and when about to
depart, I went to ask front her a light for
toy segar, taking the opportunity to slip a
little present into her hand by way of atone
ment for the ttick I had perpatrated,telling
her in a quiet whisper the while, "It NVIII
help to stuck the shop."
At breakfast the nest merniar , I told the
joke to Mrs. CarICIOII, who gma humoredly
rated me fur cheating the damsel, though
she laughed at the speedy discovery of my
imposture.
Two dayc afterward, in parking up tny
goads and chatfles. pre imr.t kft y to icpinure,
I missed tny gm:father's guinea. .1 ransackel
every place: examine.] every article again
and again; the ri1,11,11 aml cu-e were roumi
my neck—the gaisra was vit.. At first I
thought 1 . -c.C.irleton had c osarit ed to psse. , s
herself of it, in onler to have a latigh at may
discomfiture; but no she assured me she
knew nothing of my lost tref sure.
At this distance of time I can viva bow
much 1 was affected by its distil:ram:We;
than I Mi , ashamed to let it be known. I
sat down on a portmanteau, and surveyed
the test of my possessions vvitlt at species of
calm dispair. I half expected they would
vanish from hefore my eyes. Begin with
your nursery-books, dear reader, and gaze
in fancy on dery pic;ttr :if despair which
your upward c ants: , f reading has presented
to your spiritual visions. Fancy
Mr'. Blue
betu•d When 1.1,C1,100a Mihlf( l C come off the
key—Little Red Riding 11::::d when she
found the waif wa, not her atothiotLer.—
Pooh; these :ilea mete notldng; _Vaddin,
when hir. , lamp 55a. , gone, v..uld 1. twarcr
the thing: btu I Crql;:ilt tn
()late , rig -t
a ge. lie did not feel lii 110 , o!ntioo more
than I ,11.1 the loss of that I . .taine.l. W.lll it
I was a perfect Saza,ou of st tet,gth, ready
for any tmdertal.,,ing; without it I was the
hero shorn of his locks, and vonseopamitly
powerless.
"Absurd!" say. Well, it was. But it
was tar pet absurdity; and which of you is
without Otte? Who can look back and say
Ire has not been at some pet iod of life in
fluenced by a sitherstition equally
I bels:we there are ICIC Who, segr e hh ig into
the memories or Cady dap, cannot recall
smite incident insignificant in itself which
still retains the power iNflurntee their ac
tions; or a sentence, tittered pet haps thought
lessly enough, which po:tsesses at charm for
them which only death Can dissolve.
If the child lie indeed ft:Alter to the man,
ao arc the imple., , ions received in early
youth as a strong man to a puny child i n
comparison with tho-c of a latter age; and I
frankly confess my superstitious feeling with
regard to the "lucky" (?) coin, increased
tenfold after I had lost it,
I declare I was not onebit surprised when
on the morning fixed for my departure from
Carleton's, I received news of a very seri
ous change.of fortune. I expected a blow
from some quarter and was almost:indifferent
whence it should conic.
Just after coining of age I placed in a
certain individual unlimited confidence; and
in additidn to that I trusted him with a sum
amounting to many thousands or pounds.—
The man was honest but imfortunate: and
my one lost coin was immediately followed
by all these thousands of his golden breth
ren. So said a letter I received.
It was e. great hut not a ruinous loss.—
Strange it affected me lecs than the disap
pearance of my paitilier's guinea. I con
sidered it only as a beginning of my mis
fortunes. I started fa• the continent two
d ays a f ter leasing Derbyshire not in quite
the same style I originally intended and
very far front feeling in the same spirits. I
left England at twenty-three; I was eight
and thirty when I saw . it again.
As to giving a detailed account of my ill
luck during the. , c year , of wandering, it is
more than I dare do. Imagine all the evil
fortune you ever read of happening to a
solitary wandering adrenturer,gmming table
excepted—and you willha‘e about hit mine.
I never did gamble. I felt too sure I could
by no possibility win to risk my cash thus.
I had a disappointment in love too, which I
also attributed to the loss of the guinea.—
Some of my friends sayitwas not the disap
pearance of that coin. but of the number
which followed, that did the mischief, and
doomed me to old bachelorhood.
Well. as I said. I returned to England:
and though I knew . Carleton and hi. family
had long since left Derby.liire, I felt a great
longing to see it again. I resolved to go to
the old place, take up ins abode at a country
inn. anti indulge in long rambles as I had
none fifteen years before. It tens dark when
I desended from a stage coach at the hotel
door, where, if I found the nrrangements to
my liking I intended to take up my quarters,
about four ram from the town were Carle-
ton's family lived. Out,ide it was a cold
evening in eally Spring;imidc a bright tire,
jovial-looking landlord, and a smiling comely
landlady. As the latter bustled about I
could not help thinkingthere was something
about her strangely familiar to memory; but
I vainly turned over all the faces I ought to
remember, andcertainly hers was uctatnong
them.
- arned, dined, and carefully praised
the provisions and cookery to the landlady;
the \vine I lauded in her husband's presence,
thereby winning the hearts of both. Dinner
past, I begged permission to sit in their
parlor rather than my own apartnent, and
invited the landlord's aid in consmning.ome
of his excellent wine. Finally, I completed
my conquest, by stating, that I never con
sidered tea was tea unless poured out by
female hands, and bogging the landlady to
undertake that oilier Ibr me.
Ilayin g thus got all in trim. I artfully al
luded to the sign -board, and in le•s time
than L shall be able to write it, I was 10
possessinn of the history of' its adoption.—
could linrdly believe my "ears n9ucn the
comely landlady gave an aecoutit of her
baring fifteen years before received a guinea
21 ,, a pre , ent from a gentleman to 11 11 , 1:II sh e
had given a ,g,lty-s of beer, mi•taltiag 16111
fit I)r. Carleton's groom. , SitiTive it to say,
I heard the story I haie told ab ne, only
she teas the recipient, I the giver of the
guinea. I now recollected a hat for fifteen
years had never entered my mind—that on
receiving my g,otlfat her's guinea back front
Mrs. Carleton, I .lid nttt at once replace it
in the case, but retaihed it in my hand
after the vl-itor's entrance, in
a fit of ali , Price I had slit , iie.l it ittt , ) lily
pocket, and thence tran , forted it to the
damsel who brought fate the I)2er in the
gloaming.
'.after r got that guinea," said she. "I
don't know how it Nvas, but I began to put
a little money by. I sopr,, , e it starte. I no'
like: for a servant .I..es'llt .lien get so
much given her all at one... I told Jim—
that i> toy ho,batl—altout it, and the joke
the gentlemen played on me, pretending he
wanted to marry toe and keep a chop,—
Well, Jim nn. aq (fro—. tt , tltiag—he
never could hear Inc tit look; the side any
other 11111:1 NV;lq on; aml wltevoner v,e
ii -
agreed abmit the least trill.% he would :moor
a , k Nvlten the tine gentleman was coin
inz, to ,tart shoplteeping with me."
“Don't you beliete her, sir," inte:Tosed
the said .1 im. "She u•-ol to ‘ 1 ,00 1 ., an d
torn up her nose at tar, besides flitting
langiting with all the chape about, till :dm
toniiy drose me crazy."
"Do quiet now, and let me finish. At
Im4 be »Imie no' iris;—he Si::' so jealous—
and I declared whoever came. I would'nt
marry dim. When he thought I was in
earnest, and I would neither walk out with
him nor let him come to sec ine, he got
quite desperate, and one day he 'listed for a
soldier, as he often threatened to do when I
veNed him. I only meant to punish hint
for being so jealous, and never dreamed he
tvouV take on like that, and a fine way I
was in when I knew. This was two years
after I began to save. I had a tidy bit of
;mtey; for I had many a pre-eat after that
fret—'the lucky guinea,' as I used to call it.
I had lived four years in one place, and the
mistress was very kind to her servant': sn,
seeing me in troubleand fretting, she a•:ked
me what was amiss. I told her: and she
said, 'ICON Cr Mind; lie mu , t l,e booglit off.'
She gate me a good talking to for teasing
Jim; but she sew' I was sorely grieved, and
she spoke to the master. Ire got to know
all particulars for me, and all the family
gave me something toward taking my
sweetheart out of pawn, as they said.—
Would you believe it, I had just enough
and that guinea to spare! After that Jim
and I got along well enough, and in time
took this place, and got married. Jim
said, though the guinea made us quarrel in
a way, it had brought ns together better
friends than ever: so we would keep it, and
call our house the "Lucky Guinea."
There WaS little more joking between
the liu-band and wife, after which I asked
if they still kept the guinea.
"Yes," was the answer of my hostess;
"and we shall live."
From all that I heard I could draw lint
one conclu•ion, viz: that I had transferred
my godfather's gift and its accompanying
luck to Jim Allen's "missis" fifteen years
before. I was bewildereel at the whole con
cern. That I should after this lapse of
tune, and when all hopes of its recovery
had long gone by, bear tidings of my trea
sure, was to me little short of a miracle.-
1 sougot the privacy of my own room to
think about. it. It was certainly fmtunate
I had not told them of my former visit to
this part of England, and I knew I could
not be recognized: for not my own mother
would have been able to trace any likeness
between the pale student of twenty-three
and the weather beaten v isage I now owned.
But what need of concealment? Simply
this; I was resolved to regain that guinea
or peri , ll in the attempt. I could see mine
host and his wife, in their way, attached as
much importance to this as ei.er I hail done
in mine, and would not part with it on any
account. However, I argued thin.: vvlieii
the coin left. my p os , es tion 1 never intended
to bestow anything but simply a guihea:
and having inadvertently transferred my
luck along with it, I had a perfect right to
reclaim the latter.
It would take too long to tell how my stay
in Derbyshire was prolonged from weeks to
$.1,50 PER YEAR 121 ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE
months and how I listened to every word
whiclr might tend to diseoser the hiding
place of the treasure; or how I at length
overheard a conversation between the hus
band and wife which resealed the secret.—
r had previously taken considerable pains
to procure a guinea of as nearly as possible
the same date, with the intention of substi
tuting it fir its "lucky" brother when a fa
vorable chance fur purloining the latter
should present it-elf. But before this
occurred I was placed in a tantalizing posi
tion. My landlady being in an especial
good humor one day, unlocked the old fash
ioned bureau—her domestic hank—dreg
oat what she called the "secret drawer,"
and unfolding a piece of paper, which, how
ever, proved to be a bank note ten
pound ,, „bowed me "my g , olisathor'sguibea. -
I know it was the same front a yanicolar
mark I had my-:elf maJe upon it. and had
I only had the other in p reltet
hate found little difilarilly in cfroning the
eschange there and then; hut of cour,o,
usual hi tht,e vats ti , Jl/tel to
a rap had I about mc.
It was like draining the cry
t.) replace it in the owner's (.. - 1 hand; bet I
did it, enduring the While a true Martyr
dom. “I :ass oys,•' she said, as she ref.l,:ed
i(; wrap it up in one of these notcs;" and
coiling the dirty ti-itte round it. ,ey guinea
was under lock and key in a trier.. There
hol..eter, sumo eettiliqt. thOUght. it I noes
,hoes t h e e s. ae t- ,pit 1 :1 w hi c h it li c e ; I e ot; ',l
tilid it ill the dark; what a comfort they do
not keep it in their bed-room! I had ertre•
dully nnticel the key belonging to the bu
reau; nod that %cry night I hot rowed it in
this wise. Tim landlord not being revs
trill this 'sac Mrs. Allen's way of con
eying an intimation that he had taken a
diop to h mach—went early to bed. Just
before retiring, I catered my landlady's pe
culiar sabettnn, and noticing . her keys un
the table. I ;1.--i:ea Ibr s unetlling which
knew obliged hor to lease the room, and
during her absence detatelic-1 the one I so
ctneted the loan of front the hunch. I took
from 110 r bawd. the article site had been. to
fetch, bade her "good night - to before up
hack was turned heard her clatter tin: rest
of the keys into her capacious pocke , ,
whore I was well convincel they would
rest till morning, anything 'tory nn-
My landlord
continon oeeurred io pretest
V.. 14 :111 Cady n rills. I 110.11r3 hint :1 , -
cetoiell the •tatt",; and in hi: happy emidi
tioll there Ira , little fear of total-in, him by
anything short of a vigorous in[t.
landlady, wotimn, worked hard du
ring, the day; and when she sou tt ht her
a t a , leep ranee, and paid at ention
to it. I ltnetv thi, (.tat yell, hteatt , e nty
room NVVI , their=, by a rather
thin partition: and at ti n ter the con-
jupd. Knorers wcre inor powerial timn
agiccaLlc
On this neea , lon I hailed the addition of
her nasal treble to her husband's smturou ,
bass as the most enchanting union of sot:nd ,
that had eier sainted uac earl. The ser-
Nant , slept in a distant part of the
I hail no fear of them; and living in Om
hotel as I did, anything, short of being
caught in the act of — pri.:,•ging the cash"
nos prepared far. Softly, 111d , :eie.Q91 . v,
tole down stairs. The moon was shining
through the, window. iron-barred bat shut
and gave me light enough fur ;ay
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I succeeded in opening tile bureau. I
took out the the little dirty-looking parcel.
replacing it by the other guinea duly
wrapped in a ten pound note as dingy as
the one enei:,sing my guinea. Again
baked the bureau, and finally deposited
the key on the floor close to the table where
the bunch had lain, three hours before, that
it might seem to huve been aecithwitly
dropped there. I enuld Lave shouted and
committed all sorts of absurdities in my
extravagant delight at recovering my trey
Sure; loll} I was compelled to re-train my
self. I did not unfold the paper, I was tor,
sure of my genie to need the confirmation
of sight—lmt hastily pushed it with the.
guinea into a new case prepared hefurrhand•
and stitched it up.
slept not: I was too much exeltel: and
ii lren mr,rning: P3:110 I feigned iilness, a n d
lay in bed fir fear toy intro-e delight shoula
manifes.t it , elf. As to describing what
felt, it would be ridiculous t o a tt em pt it.—
I a week after recovering toy trea
sure: 1 witnessed the finding of the bureau
key by my landlady before she was aware
of its loss, and be nee pretty well convinced
that dote lion was impossiMc. Then, pre
tending basiness‘, I bade fare:veil to the
Lucky Guinea, its hotly landlord, and sinn
ing landlady: niel leaving "the Peak" in
its Antonin beauty. I journeyed to London.
Arrived there, I chanced to take up a news
paper, and in it , nn; a piece of news which
deserced the name of a ''s;a:rgeror." It
iia:; to roe e:To,:t that my fmooer 1,0:11,cr,
haling Leen f .rtunato. in hi , sec .11 , 1 :start
in life, Ni-:i. in a p i-ithm to ;».:ke ronends
to those who had seared by hib firA Lilze
Sw•L thin.e„. had 1, ,, en done I knew; lin+
i‘hen I saw the printed requQt that his old
creditor; would assenilde and receive their
~ivn, principal and interest, I rubbed ray
eye:, believing they deceived me. Happen
ing te, touch the ribbon of my guinea cage,
1 felt it was all right enough, and I Went to
the meeting and reeeived my ca , l,, which
made me really a rich man again. From
that time very cautious. and began to
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I be c•tcen:ed a lucky fcllu;t• also: "Indeed,"
slid I to myqelc, "that nmil be: have I not
oir: , ,e inure •miy Gutifathur's! Guinea.'"
Stephen Girard thz, Moriey-rds.ir.er
b tut the year fg.eventeen hundred and
1 . 1 fry, in the ens irons of Bordentm in Frtmee,
thore lived an old yea-captain, Pierre Girard,
wwith Madame .I.,trfavg,tie. his wire. They
had already four children,— no matter
whether male or female, for they Bred and
died in the .olt, mirky in which they were
born. But in the year sec:et:teen hundred
and fifty, nn the twenty-lir:A, of May, another
child c h ime into the world—a bG.y, named
Stephen Girard.
Up to the a:2:c of too or twelve. there is no
record of the life and pr grey, of this boy.
At that thee he Wl3 ilionth with one eye,
eini,al;,cd a: a c tliin-boy. with no other ae—
ilil:reanee:3 then an 1.113 pm-rect. I:now/edge of
of the element" of renting r.:l I writing. on
Huard ipiund fir the ',Vest Indies.
lie. one cye 7.-;19 nl,le the suljtatt of r:di
i•cie innon..7-it his cianpardim and Lk tem
fir life. Witit
th:s L16)1.111'0:7. .withent friends,
vttrunaz....,'or t.O wus up. 1.1
CI V 1 .i I
Ile uil not n2ion'in 1 , 4t4 in the West In
dia,. kit bound apprentice to ship.
master, in •xliose se a nce ;IC coot in
,i.e Mot t lif abaut the year sev
enteen litindied arid siat:,-four. Morose as
Step:len Girard was, lie gained the confi
dence emplayer, and ho was tartars
mate of the 1. essel in NI hiell he sailed, anti
afnerwards captain. triont his eta ter left the
-ca. Ile .i..}iago.l oral times stieccs.sfully
to and from New ° c lea ns . I n this po .,; ; ; ; ,„
Ito lint be,;mti to accumulate means, and to
t;ade un 1.1.; cam account, and he scam be
came, plat Owner k.,f the ship and cargo
which he commanded. A. large gap in the
pre e 4To`a of his history now OellUrS,
but in SeVeli/Cell hundred and sistymine
Gad hint an obscure, itioddit g. quiet, thrifty
trader in 'Water street, l'hiltolciphia.
At this period he ti.ok a likin.s to one
Mary, or Polly Lum, the daughter of att
old ship caulker, who lived in a vrater side
house down atuntigsit the ve-,els that traded.
to that city. I'lle gill was idain. lint comely.
:mil employed as a domestic son ant in a
heighboring famiiy. Stephen Girard dace
nat appear to ha:e been Linked upon with
favor by the parents of the giri, 1 tr thcy for
bade him the home for Slnne time. They
were eN en / lia Ily married, but the union was
/1 ,, t /Nippy Inc. She ti as neglectful of her
duty; hixt as morose aml :lllSlere. At length
lie applied .to the I,egislature of Pennsylva
nia fur a divorce, all , / Ob/a/llell
He still continued to rent the smell hence
in \V lter street, to ulikh he had taken hb4
wile when they were married, end he indus
triously pursued hii combined occupations
of sea captain, ship-owner and merchant.—
A hou t it iv Cote he catered into partnership
with one hatte llezleltorst, of I'lliladelphia,
and pureita , ed two ces'-elc in it Lich to trade
to the island of Saint Domingo. The
11 . 01'0 c.cl urod by Briti-.11 men-of'-war, and
•ent to -Jamaie.l: a iniZortune which iiii- , -
, ;(I(ch the short partnership. There is
an((ther („7,1p it, the story (4 Stephen Girurd,
extendib,(4 "r. 411( eventeen hundred and i.(isl
ttv.l to rf';enteen hundred and .Feventy-siz.
It is probable tint during this time he con
tinued Iti‘i td ,1 1(u-ines-. tra rhip
mastf(r atul Indreliant iu Nir.r Orleans and
Saint
Tho war pt/t an entl to tl.O sea enterprises
f Strltiten t.tirarti, :ant he Iras competed to
turn his attention to tlin hind.
lie opened a small grocery store in Water
street. joined ;iih a bottling establi,liment,
where Le worked hard with his own hands
at the occupation of battling claret anti
About the year seventeen hundred
and seventy-seven, upon the allege , ' ap
proach or the to Philmiciphia. hu
puretet.eti a small tract of land from his
former painter, Mr. 11.1.:Ichurt, at which
there was ali ,u-e, to whit hhe remot el
tiricearly acti late,
in prep.atiog chi: et mai eider 1 r the market,
a,, , 1 thcat t.t. a icr:e it to the,
Amer/eau near Lia
Ilere lie temaluea until I e Vellte,(ll
lit:mired and se‘enly•lll:le, s onetimeq mul;-
irn.: a in a a water-ye-no . t.D
Phil:11-.11.111a, W di-p--e if
appcm:lllt2C wa, not mini, in ill- ht , , or. IF.;
skin wa, dark . elinizy; Liz+ ,rll.l Was
•11--rt and Clio::: lie Nra: rough, vul
gar, and on-:-,11,1y: one e::e glarol
111 , •i-miers. lie met with
jeer, an-I tem.:. c try ;'Licit Lei
1. - ac with ; 4 7: - ‘4 1 .41 4."4:iiiir;i:ty 4111 , 1 c..:17; 1 4 , iiro.
He Lac] 140 4 , 44( 1 4,ll:ect ill S lew, wideh Ite
f. 110, 1 -01 'with all the steads enrrc.,3: of an
iron That object was , . to make mency.
Iraq evacuated by the
Priti•h is sc‘ei.teen hundred anl seventy-
Stcplwn C reed again f,ntrol is
Water :-treet, tilt, time a:cup:Ong a range t•:
ft acne , torei upon thc ea.t-,130. lie Ara. to,
nto:e than tweutvsnine years of n;:.,•e„ but t o
I,ldin. grate and repult‘iNe in appearance,
that lie was known as "Ohl Girard." His
hm.ines; could not have teen vLrs prosper
ous ut this period, e.,n-idering the disturLed
and tlepre. , ed *tate of the c. , untry. Ile teas
filde:ly biding his I:nte. Ilk -tore was well
lilted with old 1,1;:olts, sailY, pieces of cord
age and other materials mcful for ship
Imxit ling
In F cccmtcan han,lre3 and righty,
Girard azain comra, , neol the New Oricatos
l and Saint Domingo trade. In two year: he
had prr , gromsed so far am to be able to pur-