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"Look here, boys," said Tom Carver, "what do you say to mortifying Fitz's pride?" "Have you got a plan in view, Tom? If so, out with it." "Yes: you know the pedler that comes into town about once a month to buy up rags, and sell his tinwares." "I have seen him. Well, what of him?" "He is coming early next week.
He was just a poor, timid Jew, of a race that has been hunted for centuries to make sport and revenue for the great and mighty. When he spoke of moving and the landlord said that he would forfeit the twenty dollars deposit that he had held back all these years, and which was all the capital the pedler had, he thought that was the law, and was silent.
The bills or drafts were delivered without hesitation. The latter he remitted to Mr. Astor by some of his associates, who were about to cross the continent to New York. This done, he embarked on board the Pedler, on the 3d of April, accompanied by two of the clerks, Mr. Seton and Mr. Halsey, and bade a final adieu to Astoria. The next day, April 4th, Messrs.
"I'm a-comin' to it as fast as I can, ain't I? Very well then! "Well?" said I impatiently. "Well," nodded the Pedler, and his eyes twinkled malevolently. "I says it again I warns you again. "It was neither a cold nor a dark night!" said I. "Well, it might ha' been, mightn't it? very well then!
He looked round in astonishment upon the condition of all things around him, ignorant of the individual who had wrested from him his charge, besides subjecting his scull to the heavy test which it had been so little able to resist or he to repel; and, almost ready to believe, from the equally prostrate condition of the pedler and his brother, that, in reality, the assailant by which he himself was overthrown was no other than the potent bottle-god of his brother's familiar worship.
Thomas Leicester, he that keeps this inn now, is my son-in-law: he is gone to Lancaster this morning." The pedler said that was a pity, he should have liked to see his namesake, and drink a glass with him. "Come again to-morrow," said Harry Vint, ironically. "Dame," he cried, "come hither. Here's another Thomas Leicester for ye, wants to see our one." Mrs.
If a pedler comes to the door with his box and bundles, he looks up, and spying the ayah in the veranda or at the window, he calls out: 'Is anything wanted for Mem-Sahib or the bâbâs? Tell the lady I have beautiful things to shew. Away trips the ayah to her mistress, and good-naturedly, or perhaps no, it shall be good-naturedly lays the discovery before her that some trifle is wanted.
"Yes," said Paul, "I got tired and fell asleep, and I don't know when I should have waked up but for your dog." "Yes, Boney's got a keen scent for provisions," laughed the pedler. "He's a little graspin', like his namesake. You see his real name is Bonaparte; we only call him Boney, for short." Meanwhile he had stopped his horse. He was about to start afresh, when a thought struck him.
His scheme succeeded; for great was the sale of these hymns and ballads at a halfpenny a piece in the streets of Glamerton. Even those who bought to laugh, could not help feeling an occasional anticipatory sting of which, being sermon-seared, they were never conscious under pulpit denunciation. The pedler having emptied his wallet not like that of Chaucer's Pardoner,
Mr. Perkins paused to draw a pipe and tobacco sack from his pocket, and Jim's throat twitched. After filling the pipe the genial pedler offered the sack. "Hev some?" Jim hesitated, and his face reddened, but at last he shook his head determinedly. "Thanks; I I don't smoke."
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