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Interim Secretary, ROBERT M'CORKINDALE, Esq. "The necessity of a direct line of Railway communication through the fertile and populous district known as the VALLEY OF GLENMUTCHKIN has been long felt and universally acknowledged.
We therefore kept him steadily at work out of Glasgow, upon a very liberal allowance, to which, apparently, he did not object. "Dunshunner," said M'Corkindale to me one day, "I suspect that there is something going on about our railway more than we are aware of. Have you observed that the shares are preternaturally high just now?" "So much the better. Let's sell."
"By order of the Provisional Committee, "ROBT. M'CORKINDALE, Secretary." "There!" said Bob, slapping down the prospectus on the table, with as much triumph as if it had been the original of Magna Charta "What do you think of that? If it doesn't do the business effectually, I shall submit to be called a Dutchman.
As, however, M'Corkindale had told me that every one of Sawley's shares had been disposed of in the market the day before, I felt less compunction at having refused to allow that excellent man an extra thousand beyond the amount he had applied for, notwithstanding of his broadest hints, and even private entreaties.
The anemone of the garden differs scarcely more from its unpretending prototype of the woods, than Robert M'Corkindale, Esq., Secretary and Projector of the Glenmutchkin Railway, differed from Bob M'Corkindale, the seedy frequenter of "The Crow."
What this system was, I never clearly understood; but, of course, none of us had any objections. This circumstance gave an additional impetus to the shares, and they once more went up. I was, however, too cautious to plunge a second time into Charybdis, but M'Corkindale did, and again emerged with plunder. When the time came for the parliamentary contest, we all emigrated to London.
We therefore kept him steadily at work out of Glasgow, upon a very liberal allowance, to which, apparently, he did not object. "Dunshunner," said M'Corkindale to me one day, "I suspect that there is something going on about our railway more than we are aware of. Have you observed that the shares are preternaturally high just now?" "So much the better. Let's sell."
We were also threatened with the presence of the M'Closkie and Vich-Induibh; but M'Corkindale, entertaining some reasonable doubts as to the effect which their corporeal appearance might have upon the representatives of the dissenting interest, had taken the precaution to get them snugly housed in a tavern, where an unbounded supply of gratuitous Ferintosh deprived us of the benefit of their experience.
I never bore malice in my life, so I chalked them down, without favouritism, for a certain proportion. While engaged in this charitable work, the door flew open, and M'Corkindale, looking utterly haggard with excitement, rushed in. "You may buy an estate whenever you please, Dunshunner," cried he; "the world's gone perfectly mad!
Sawley and his disciples, who, as M'Corkindale suspected, were at the bottom of the whole transaction, having beared to their heart's content, now came into the market to purchase, in order to redeem their engagements. The following extracts from the weekly share-lists will show the result of their endeavours to regain their lost position: Sat. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Frid. Sat.
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