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AMOS DYKE'S FORTUNE.
1
1HE time of our little tele shall be some
Uty years ago, before express trains
tore along at the rate .of fifty mile an hour,
before chimney-pot hats were in 'fashion,'
and when there were many quaint old ways
and customs in dress and manners which
have now faded quite away.
And the hero of our tale shall be Amos
Dyke, the son of the Hollington carrier.
Old Peter Dyke, the itollington carrier,
lived in a little side place off the main
street of the town, and commenced life
With only a Tow shillings in his pocket. By
honest industry he had accumulated enough
to establish a good business, and at loBt
he became the Hollington carrion
Old Peter died, leaving a son about ten
years of age, and enough for him to start
well in life, and something more. But as
he was so young it was necessary that he
should have some one to look after him and
his property; and who so fit as the miller,
Crust, to undertake the tank? Crust was
nothing loath; he promised to befriend the
boy, and do the best he could for him; and
as Crust was an honest man, everything
promised fair for Amos.
Old Peter Dyke's business was sold at bis
death, according to his express wish; and
according to arrangements made between
the miller and the old man, the proceeds
were all invested in the mill a flourish
ing concern and one out of which all the
neighbors said a fortune must sooner or
later be made.
The prospects of Amos Dyke, then, weie
about as bright as those of any young man
in his rank of life all the country round. ,
The miller did not neglect bis young
charge's education. lie gave him the very
best the neighborhood afforded, and acted
honorably by him in every way.
Thus grew up Amos Dyke to manhood;
and side with him grew Mary Crust. And
often, if the truth were known, the worthy
miller looked with satisfaction upon them,
as they sat one on each side of his table,
and thought that perhaps some day, when
he was gone, Amos and Mary would be in
their places at the head and foot of the table,
and perhaps the mill be more flourishing
than ever. .
There was one drawback to this agreea
ble prospect. Amos Dyke was rather of a
dreamy nature ho was often absent as
though his thoughts were far away; and he
had to own that many a time when he
.should have been attending to what he was
at, he was building castles in the air instead.
Time passed on, as it will always keep
doing, and Amos was now twenty and
' Mary was eighteen and in another year,
on New Year's-day, Amos would be of age
and would come in for his share of the mill,
lie hoped also to come in for his share of
Mary.
But alas I alas 1 there was a heavy cloud
looming over the Hollington mill. The
worthy miller entered into a largo too
large a contract to supply flour at a given
price for several months ; he thought he
knew what he was about ; and if others had
been as true to him, as he was in his deal
ings, all would have boen well ; but the con
tract proved his ruin. One dreadful morn
ing the post brought him the announcement
that he was a bankrupt he, and Amos,
and Mary all of them were undone.
. Honest John Crust could have borne his
own losses well enough, if he had no one
else to think of but himself. Time was,
when he had only bread and cheese ; and on
bread and cheese he could live again ; but
there were others to think of too. . Ah 1
the "others" these are what makes life's
trials and losses often bo hard to boar. To
see them want to see them pinched ; this
soon doubles trial and loss.
And the weight of it proved too much
for honest John ; the trouble struck him
with a deadly chill, and he did nut survive
it long.
Amos tended the miller along with Mary,
during his short illness ; and as the time
drew near when it was plain that the good
man could not last long, he gave them both
his lost directions.
"Amos," said the dying man, "if this
trouble had not come you would sooner or
later have had all the Hollington mill your
own share and mine too ; for Mary is all I
have in the world, and she would have been
yours, and with her whatever I had ; but
now it is all gone. But whatever has gone
our good name has not ; and, believe me a
good uarne is worth money. 'Tis worth re
" speet and honor and trust, which are better
than money ; but these often bring money
too. 'Tis an awful thing when parents
leave their children a bad name ; my poor
schoolfellow Bence Porter used to say that
'it took him seven years to wipe off his fa
ther's name from him' ay seven years'
bard work, had he, as an honest man, bo
fore any one for miles round would trust
him with a shilling, though be was as hon
est as the sun. And now, Amos, give up
-day-dreaming. Perhaps you thought you
could afford it when you knew you had a
tidy fortune coming to you, and while you
had no responsibility or care, for I was the
" head of everything. Well, you were wrong
there no man can day-dream without com
ing to loss ; but if you could not afford it
'then, bow much less now. Believe me,
Amos, folks don't dream themselves into
anything. Be up and doing, and with
God's blessing all may yet be well. Keep
from wishtnir. wishinff. and be doing, doing,
and with industry, honesty, and thrift, and
the blessing of your God, you will do well."
This was the last talk the miller had with
Amos about worldly things, though he said
much to him about the happier and better
land for the good man had that above
which no losses or bankruptcies could take
away.. ....... . .
Mary Crust had to do what she could for
her own living, for now the mill and all
belonging to it was to be sold j but she had
her brave fathoi's heart and courage, and
was quite prepared for whatever duty point
ed out as the right course. ' Friends found
her a situation as companion to a lady who
lived in London. It seemed to be in evory
way what was desirable : and though Amos
would have kept her in Hollington if he
could, Mary was determined. Sheremined
Amos of all her father had said to him
aboutday-dreaming that honest work was
what lay before them ; and that if they
both stuck to it, honost work would sooner
or later bring them together as man and
wife. " How soon that will be," said Mary
Crust, " depends most likely, Amos upon
yourself.
So the miller's daughter went off to her
situation, and Amos remained at Holling
ton. Amos Dyke was not quite without resour
ces. The creditors of the Uollington miller
when they met, had as their chairman a
worthy " Friend," named Helps, who at
the end of the meeting, addressed ' his
brother creditors on behalf of Amos.
" There is one matter," said Mr. Joshua
Helps, "which I wish to bring before the
meeting before we part : it is the case of
the young man Dyke. I think we ought to
show pity for that young man ; he is now
beggared through no fault of his own ; and
I would propose a subscription on his be
half. If there be any who will follow me,
I will give 10 to begin with. ' 1
The proposition of the worthy Quaker
was successful. 100 was raised for Amos
in the room. :
"Look thee here, friond," said the Qua
ker ; " here are the materials for an ample
fortune. Fortunes have been made out of
a penny piece ; bow much more can they
be made out of 100. Now stir thyself,
and this money aright, and thou wilt do
well."
. Amos took the money with much grati
tude, and, in truth, intended to do no end
of things with it ; but day after oV y slipped
by, and while he was intending to do a
great deal, he really did nothing. ,, ; ,
And every day he found it harder and
harder to begin. He had no immediate
necessity, for this money supplied him with
all be required ; and always thinking that
this thing and that tiling were not good
enough, he allowed month after month to
pass. .
One grand chance Amos let slip. , The
Hollington carrier, who had succeeded his
father, offered to give him a share of the
business if he would put 50 in it, and
undertake to drive one of the teams him
self; but Amos was above taking to the
road, and so that chance passed by. .
" Now," said Amos, as he sat dreamily
by the roadside one day, as the Guilford
and London coach drove by, with a team of
four splendid grays, " if I could get a share
in a turn-out like that I shouldn't mind
driving it."
On came the coach ; and there is no know
ing how long Amos Dyke might have sat
there had not an elderly gentleman shouted
to him, as he passed, and cried, " Ah,
friend Amos Dyke, is that thee? what art
thou doing there ? Hera coachman ! Hallo,
coachman 1 wait one momene ; we'll take
up this young man for a mile or two, and
I'll pay for him. Now then, friend Amos,
squeeze in here by me ; now tell me how
thou art getting on, and what kind of busi
ness thou hast put that 100 in, which al
lows thee to be sitting doing nothing by
the road-side at this hour of the day. My
experience of a 100 is, that it requires a
deal of looking after ; but perhaps thou
hast found some new way of making mon
ey work while thou dost play."
A few words, and indeed poor Amos'
looks revealod to the shrewd Quaker ex
actly bow the matter lay. It was no part
of the worthy man's intention to shame
Amos before other people, so he said no
more until they arrived at the next Btage.
Then, while horses wore being changed,
Mr. Joshua Helps said, " Thou hast noth
ing to do, so thou shalt come on to London
with me ; I will take care of thee, and bring
thee bock all safe to-morrow."
Amos felt a thrill of delight at the proposi
tion, and, in the fulness of his joy, told the
Quaker of the special attraction he had
there ; Indeed, in his simplicity, he even
went so far as to confess that he used fre
quently to go and sit on that seat, where ho
had found him, to look at the coach that
had borne away the one he loved ; and that
he bad a dreamy kind of pleasure in think
ing that it was going to the. place where
she was.
"And will the coach's going bring thee
any nearer?" said Mr. Joshua; "what
goodwill that do thee?" Mr. Joshua did
not say this because he did not believe la
love not be. He had loved Sarah Short
himself, and Dever ceased until he ' made
her Sarah Helps ; but he did not believe in
dreamy love but in working love. He used
to say, "Orpah
kissed Naomi, ..but Ruth
clave unto her.1
All that day Mr. Joshua Helps took Amos
Dyke about with him, continually direct
ing his attention to one person, i and one
thing and another, in this fashion" Dost
thou see that horse, Amos how it pulls ?
Dost thou see what haste that man is mak
ing with that parcel ? Dost thou perceive
how ever ybody is going somewhere, and
doing something f" And indeed the young
tn'an , n jed have bad no greater example of
energy than Mr. Joshua himself, who pul
ling out his watch often from time to time,
was evidently intent on getting through no
end of work before evening. " ' 1 ' ' '
- When evening came, Amos asked if he
could go out and try to get a, sight of Mary
as he was so fortunate as to be near where
she was, , . t . , . , , , , : ;
, " And how wilt thou go to her, add with
what sort of a. tale?" said the Quaker;
' how wilt thou answer her questions whon
she asks thee what thou art doing, and
how much nearer marriage thou art ? I
should be ashamed," said he, " to have
asked to sea my Sarah under circumstances
like these ; and indeed I am doubtful if she
on hor part, would have seen me. Now
take my advice, young man," said Mr.
Joshua: "remain here quietly with me this
evening, and let us talk over matters, and
A - .1 . 1 A . . ... . 1
lo-morrow mou snail, return wiui me , ana
I tell thee it will be worth a ten-pound note
to thee, and more, if thou dost not go to
see that young woman. ' I am not going to
tell thee how it will be worth so much mon
ey, but I do tell thee that it is so, and if
thou takest my word thou wilt find it so
too. i ' ; ". '.
' That evening the good Quaker kept Amos
at his lodgings, and talked with bim over
his affairs, and ovor his faults, which were
surely among the most important of those
affairs. ' '
"Now, 1 will start thee," said the good
man, " only on one condition, and that is,
that thou wilt promise never to go to see
thy Mary until thou canst give her a good
account of thyself and thy concerns or at,
any rate, of thy industry aud efforts one
such as thy conscience can approve of."
These seemed rather hard lines for poor
Amos.. Still he agreed to them, for his
100 was slipping fast away. . ,..-.
' On the following day, good Joshua Helps
went to the Hollington carrier, the succes
sor of Amos' father, and then and 1 there
made an agreement with him that the
young man should have the place originally
offered to him. ' Mr. ' Joshua himself ad
vanced what was necessary, on the con
dition that it was repaid to him in tine
season. J -. " " ' 1 ' '
Very many struggles had Amos with
h imself as he,' for the first time, put on his
carrier's clothes and prepared to start with
the team; but he overcame them all : honor,
gratitude the hope of getting Mary Crust,
and of shortening the dreadful time during
which he could not see her, all spurred him
on to do the thing which was right.
Two long years had passed away, and
now Amos had fairly and honestly set him
self to work. The long road journeys, the
" all weathers," which ho hod to meet, the
old carrier's exactness aud everything to
a farthing in money, to a minute in time
all helped to make him a business man.
At last the happy day came near. The
old carrier sent for Amos one morning, and
told bim that he was begining to fool too
old to go the London stage any more; that
he was about to givo the journey up to him.
And now when Amos began seriously to
reflect on the past, and see where he stood
at the present, he felt that he hod earned
the right to boo Mary, and could give her
by word of mouth a good account of him
self ; but first, he felt bo ought to consult
his friond Mr. Joshua Helps.
"And now," said Mr. Joshua, "canst
thou pay me back what I have advanced
for thee, for whilst thou art in debt there
is nothing thou canBt call thine own?"
"Ay, here it is," said Amos, pulling out
a great leathern purse, and counting the
money out in guineas on the table; "I
broiiL'lit it, for I felt I could not answer
Mary, if she asked me if I owed anything."
"Then go aud see thy Mary," said the
Quaker; "and when thou contest back,
come aud tell me how she is, and how
much she has saved."
Folks may wondor what the Quaker
wanted to know about Mary's savings for ;
but he had a reason of his own. : He meant
Amos now to marry Mary, and he meut to
help them too; but be would not put his
money where it would not be safe into
idle, dreamy, spendthrift hands.
So Mr. Joshua bought up the business of
the Hollington carrier, and also the stage
which dashed past dreamy Amos with the
four gallant grays; and he made one fine
business of them all.
Amos Dyke now changed the wagon for
the coach,, and drove the grays many a
time himself. He never drank, and never
dreamed at least by day. Ho worked like
an honest man; and at last, by God's bless
ing commenced a new year, hlmsolf the
proprietor of the whole concern. One
thought often came into the mind of Amos
and his wife, and that was, bow delightful
it would be to purchase the old mill. As
time wore on this also was accomplished,
and Amos Dyke and his wife had the pleas
ure of seeing two of their own sods pros
pering in It. ,,'
A Yankee's Chances. v
JL' YANKEE old bacholor wa once
X. bantered on the subject of matrimony
by a young girl, who told him she didn't
believe he ever found a woman who'd have
him. f
" Yes, I did," replied he, . " I bad three
chances to get married, aud they all " bus
ted," so I never tried a fourth."" " -
Pray bow was that ?" Inquired the young
" Why, you see, I courted Deacon Haw-
kin's darter Deborah Deb,' they used to
call her and so one night we made it up
between us to get married. Well, while
we were going to the parson's, I accldently
slouched ray foot into a mud ( puddle and
spattered mud all over Deb's new gown; it
was made out'n one of her grandmother's
chintz petticoats, and she was so proud of
the rig that she got mad, as bops. Wa'al
when we got to the parson's the ceremony
began and be asked Deb if she would take
me for her lawful wedded husband. " Not"
says she; " I've taken a , mislikin' to him
since I left homo I" , ' . . - ,' ,
" The parson laughed and so did his wife
and darter, who had oome in to see the
ceremony, and I felt . streaked as thunder,
while Deb went off in a miff.
" Wa'al it was all up, of course, for the
time being t but I was determined to, have
some satisfaction for such mean treatment,
so I began to shine up to her again; I gin
her a new string-of beads, a few kisses and
some other notions until finally we made it
all up, and we went to the parson's a sec
ond time. .We was stood out, the middle
of the room and he ax'd me if I would take
Deborah for my lawful wedded wife?",
" No 1" said I, ," I've taken a mislikin' to
her since I was here last I" .
" This was a stunner for poor Deb, who
turned white as a sheet, and the parson's
wife ran for her smellin' salts.'
I began to relent a little when I saw how
she took it; but it proved only to be a mad
fit after nil ; for, in a few minutes mora she
slutted away for home, lively as a cricket.
' "It was some weeks before I could bring
round the gal agin to let me spark her, and
it proved rather an expensive job,, too, for
I had to buy her a span new caliker gown
which cost hatd on four dollars. That
fotched her and mode a sure thing of it.
So we went a third time to the parson's
expecting to be tied so fast that all natur'
could't separate us. We ax'd him to begin
the ceremony, as everything was all rite
now. .
" I shant do any such thing 1" said he,
"for I've taken a dislikiu' to both of you
since you were here last. , , , .
" Thereupon Deb burst out a crying, and
the parson's wife she burst out a laughing,
and the parson burst out scolding ; ; and I
burst out the front door and put for home.
Next day, hearing that Deb had licked the
parson and pulled out nearly all bis wife's
hair I concluded that my chances with such
a fillibuster would be rather squally, sol
let her slido." I, ,
A I.nuglmble Adventure.
Bclshazzar 'Smith had a very : bad and
very dangerous habit of walking in bis
sleep. His family feared that, during some
of ono his somnambulistio sauntcrings, he
would charge out of the window and kill
himself ; so they persuaded him to sloop
with his little brother William, and tio one
end of a rope around his body, and the
other end around the waist of little William.
The very first night after this arrangement
was made, Belshazzar dreamed that a burg
lar was pursuing him with a dagger. So
be crept over to William's side of the bed
stepped ovor William's slumbering form,
jumped out on the floor, and slid under the
bed. Ho stayed there awhile, fast asleep )
and then, his nightmare having changed,
he emerged upon the other side of the bed,
aud got under the covers in his old place.
The rope, it will be observed, was beneath
the bed, and it was taut, too. Early in the
morning, Ilelshazzar, about half awake,
scrouged over against William, i To his
surprise, the movement jorked William clear
out of bed. Ilolshazzur . leaped out to as
certain the cause of the phenomenon, and
at the same time his brother disappeared
under the bed. Bolshaczar, hardly yet
awake, was scared, and he dived beneath
the bedstead ; as be did so, he hoard Wil
liam skirmishing across the blankets, above
his head. Once more he rushed out, just
in time to perceive William glide over the
other side. Belsahzzar just thou became
sulliciently conscious to fool the rope pull
ing him. He comprehended the situation
at once, and disengaged himself.
Perhaps William was not mad 1 but it is
cortaiu that he positively objected to liol
shazzar as a bedfellow, while that worthy
sleep walker, now anchors himself to an
anvil. i
H"A man in New Harapshi re wrote to
an editor to know how he would break an
ox? This was the' reply ha received:' If
only one ox, a good way would be to hoist
him up by means of a log chain attached to
bis tail to the top of a pole forty feet from
the ground. Then hoist him by a rope,
tied about bis horns, to another pole. Then
descend on to his bock a five ton pile dsiver,
and if that don't break lira, let him start a
country newspaper and trust people for
subscription. One of the two ways will do
It ture 1 1
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