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Give him the money;" and I pocketed the stuff. Then I offered to bet him $2,000, but Bill declined to bet with me any more; so my friend the grocery-man spoke up: "I'll bet you I can turn the card." Bill replied, "I have just lost $1,000, and if I bet any more it will not be less than $2,000." So I handed my friend the money to put up; but Bill wouldn't stand it, and spoke up: "I won't do that.
"O, yes, he eats a little," said the grocery-man, and the boy tossed a piece of candy such as he gave the King of Spain, with cayenne pepper in it, to the dog, which swallowed it whole, and the old man said, "Now, I suppose your father is cured, you will stay at home for awhile, and settle down to decent citizenship, and take an active part in the affairs of your city and state?
When we withdrew, the entire convention, including the grocery-man, adjourned, and accompanied us to the river where the general merits of our boat were thoroughly discussed by lantern light. Also, various conflicting versions of the distance to Bismarck were given each party being certain of his own infallibility. There is something curious about the average man's conception of distance.
"Take" he said, and then his voice changed a little "take Lord Fauntleroy to his room." When Mr. Hobbs's young friend left him to go to Dorincourt Castle and become Lord Fauntleroy, and the grocery-man had time to realize that the Atlantic Ocean lay between himself and the small companion who had spent so many agreeable hours in his society, he really began to feel very lonely indeed.
When I look at Jim, handsome and head up in the air, and think how he'd look all bowed down, hair turnin' gray, and not carin' whether he's shaved and has on a clean shirt or not, 'cause he's got loaded down with debt, and the grocery-man and the butcher after him, and no work, and me and the children draggin' him down, I can bear anything.
"Manning," he said, "could I get you to undertake a little work for me this evening?" "Why, certainly, Senator, certainly," said the grocery-man. "When did you get back? Glad to see you. Certainly." "I want you to get everything together that would make a nice Christmas for a family of eight father and mother and six children Christmas tree, groceries, toys you know what I mean."
Then rage succeeded. "What right had this this so-called mother to write to her?" But she need not read it, and Alexina sprang up and went about her household duties, as if in interviews with grocery-man and butcher, with cook and laundress, she could forget that her mother had written her, that the letter lay up-stairs awaiting her.
"Send everything at once, and the bill to me." "I'll be delighted," was all the astonished and approving grocery-man could say. The Senator passed out, but remembering the old people, visited a clothier and shoe man, and, finding that he could only guess at what sizes might be required, ordered the several articles with the privilege of exchange. When his labors were over, he returned to his room.
"I want," he said, "a book about earls." "What!" exclaimed the clerk. "A book," repeated the grocery-man, "about earls." "I'm afraid," said the clerk, looking rather queer, "that we haven't what you want." "Haven't?" said Mr. Hobbs, anxiously. "Well, say markises then or dooks." "I know of no such book," answered the clerk. Mr. Hobbs was much disturbed.
An' if I did, I wouldn't tell ye," answered Meg, testily, and as a relief to her indignation cuffed her youngest born in lieu of him upon whom she wished she dared bestow the correction. But the corner grocery-man was more obliging and better supplied with accommodations for Captain Beck's belongings.
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