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Occasionally one slave owner would buy one from another. "If there was ever a slave market in Madisonville or Hopkins County I do not remember it or ever heard of it," says J.M. Adams, book-keeper of Harlen Coal Company, age 84, Madisonville, Ky. In the year 1864, during the conflict between the North and South, a new citizen was added to the town of Warfield.
We did board with him, and finally he fleeced us; but when I spoke of it to my little wife, she only shrugged her shoulders, and said she did not like to be unkind to her 'poor papa. So poor papa made away with our little stock of money in no time; and as I felt that it was now becoming necessary to look about for something, I ran up to London, and tried to get a situation as a clerk in a merchant's office, or as accountant, or book-keeper, or something of that kind.
Palmer on this report, but the colonial office at home have dismissed him from his situation." The following facts respecting the persecution of Special Justice Bourne, illustrate the same thing. "A book-keeper of the name of Maclean, on the estate of the Rev. M. Hamilton, an Irish clergyman, committed a brutal assault upon an old African.
Forthwith, that there might be no possible unpleasantness for even such hostesses have their duties of tact she politely introduced him as Mr. Jones. He had been a man of innumerable occupations nothing long: caretaker of tanks, rabbit-trapper, boundary-rider, cook at a shearers' camp, and, in due time, he became book-keeper at O'Fallen's. That was due to Vic. Mr.
But, when his book-keeper joyfully informed his employer of such an unexpected result, "Change it, by all means," exclaimed the broker, "my creditors do not expect even fifteen cents on the dollar, and were I to give them fifty, what benefit would I derive from my failure?" And he paid ten cents only on the dollar.
All at once he was startled from his comfortable repose by a loud conversation in the store, and rose from the divan in order to hear what was the matter. "I tell you I am unable to assist you," he heard his book-keeper say. "I am poor myself, and Mr. Palm is not at home." "Mr. Palm is at home, and I implore you let me see him," said a strange, supplicating voice.
Wilkins was head clerk in the establishment, and although he had all the books to keep, his work was lighter than that of any of the rest. He went to work later in the morning, and left it earlier at night. Besides being book-keeper, he was a sort of a superintendent of the whole concern; and the clerks looked up to him as second only to the proprietor himself.
"I know, ma, what you've ben plannin' for Will keepin' him in school to make a book-keeper out of him. But it ain't no use, I've quit. He's got to go to work." "An' after I have brung you up the way I have," she wept, starting to cover her head with the apron and changing her mind. "You never brung me up," he answered with sad kindliness. "I brung myself up, ma, an' I brung up Will.
I would hardly have known you. What will Nettie think?" "How is Nettie?" "Haven't you heard from her lately?" "Not for some weeks." "Then I suppose the neighborhood gossip is true." He looked at her inquiringly, and she went on, studying his face carefully, "They say she's soured on you, and is sweet on her father's new book-keeper." Bradley took refuge in silence, as usual.
He always insists upon kissing my foot, and I bestow upon him, kneeling, the apostolic benediction. This is the only Spanish proprietor in possession, with whom I am acquainted." And, so saying, Titbottom lay back upon the ground, and making a spy-glass of his hand, surveyed the landscape through it. This was a marvellous book-keeper of more than sixty!
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