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"Here's your health," said the pedler. "You must drink with me, you must." "And welcome," said the old man. "Well," said the pedler, "I do travel five counties; but for all that, you are the first namesake I have found. I am Thomas Leicester, too, as sure as you are a living sinner." The old man laughed, and said, "Then no namesake of mine are you; for they call me Harry Vint.
They'll find me some day, danglin' I never could abide 'blood myself danglin' to the thing as looks like a oak tree in the daytime." "What do you mean?" said I. The Pedler sighed, shook his head, and shouldered his brooms. "It's jest the loneliness!" said he, and, spitting over this shoulder, trudged upon his way. And, in a little while, I rose, and buckled on my knapsack.
The outlaw had not placed himself within the shadow of the trees in time sufficient to escape the searching gaze of the woodman, who, seeing the movement and only seeing one person, leaped nimbly forward with a light footstep, speaking thus as he approached: "Hello! there who's that the pedler, sure.
Lucy was dreadfully fatigued, and a frequent sense of weariness almost persuaded her to lay down life itself in utter exhaustion: but the encouraging words of the pedler, and the thought of his peril, for whose safety though herself hopeless of all besides she would willingly peril all, restored her, and invigorated her to renewed effort.
The pedler himself was a man of perhaps forty, with a face in which shrewdness and good humor seemed alike indicated. Take him for all in all, you might travel some distance without falling in with a more complete specimen of the Yankee. "So you came nigh losing your dinner," he repeated, in a pleasant tone.
Now a certain wily pedler had turned the matter over and resolved to make something of it. One day there appeared in the streets of Glamerton a man carrying in his hand a bundle of papers as a sample of what he had in the pack upon his shoulders. He bore a burden of wrath.
I looked through the dim night, and saw, fifty paces before me, Pinacle, the pedler, with his huge basket, his otter-skin cap, woollen gloves, and iron-pointed staff. The lantern hanging from the strap of his basket lit up his debauched face, his chin bristling with yellow beard, and his great nose shaped like an extinguisher.
"They are upon you they come fly for your life, you dog I hear their voices." "I'm off, lawyer" and looking once behind him as he hurried off, the pedler passed from the rear of the building as those who sought him re-entered in front. "The blood's in him the Yankee will be Yankee still," was the muttered speech of the lawyer, as he prepared to encounter the returning rioters.
He usually travelled through Grafton twice a month, and made it his convenience to put up over night with his friends. It was there I used to meet him. His name was Daboll, and he claimed to be descended from that ancient Connecticut maker of arithmetics and almanacs, Nathan Daboll. He said that was why he became a pedler he was born to calculate. Yet his occupation sat very lightly upon him.
This duly mailed, he had returned to the Sailors' House, knocked at the door of the upstairs room in which, through his generosity, the street vendor lay sleeping, and after waking him up and becoming assured that the man was in real distress, had bought at twice their value the China silks which had caused the disheartened pedler so many weary hours of tramping.
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