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Now," proceeded the speaker, "if this singin' bus'nis don't do more'n to give ye somethin' new to think about, an' take up an evenin' now an' then, even if it bothers ye some, I think mebbe it'll be a good thing fer ye. They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good fer a dog keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe," suggested David. "Perhaps you are right," said John.
"Wa'al, it is an' it ain't. I've got through yarnin' about Dave Harum at any rate, an' mebbe we'd better have a little confab on your matters, seein' 't I've got you 'way up here such a mornin' 's this. I gen'ally do bus'nis fust an' talkin' afterward," he added, "but I kind o' got to goin' an' kept on this time."
"All right then," said David cheerfully, ignoring her lethal suggestion, "but before we git down to bus'nis an' signin' papers, an' in order to set myself in as fair a light 's I can in the matter, I want to tell ye a little story." "I hain't no objection 's I know of," acquiesced the widow graciously.
But I had to go through the pufformance the third time before he got it into his head that if he didn't go when I wanted he couldn't go when he wanted, an' that didn't suit him; an' when he felt the whip on his shoulder it meant bus'nis." "Was that the end of his balkin'?" asked Mrs. Bixbee. "I had to give him one more go-round," said David, "an' after that I didn't have no more trouble with him.
I expect he'll find it putty tough at first, but if he's a feller that c'n be drove out of bus'nis by a spell of the Eagle Tavern, he ain't the feller I'm lookin' fer though I will allow," he added with a grimace, "that it'll be a putty hard test.
I'll stay on my hoss, she says, laughin', an' then agin laughin' fit to kill, fer I stood there with my mouth open clear to my back teeth, not bein' used to doin' bus'nis 'ith quite so much neatniss an' dispatch, as the sayin' is. "'Oh, it's all right, she says.
"'David Harum, she says, with her mouth shut all but a little place in the corner toward me, 'if you don't take me out o' this place, I'll go without ye, she says. "'Don't you think you c'd stan' it a little longer? I says. 'Mebbe they've sent home fer their clo'es, I says. He, he, he, he! But with that she jest give a hump to start, an' I see she meant bus'nis.
"'Wa'al, ye won't, I don't believe, I says, 'an' as fur as that drummer is concerned, you c'n bet, I says, 'that he didn't nor won't let on to nobody but his own folks not till his bus'nis is squared up, an' more 'n that, I says, 'seein' that your trouble 's ben made ye by one o' my help, I don't see but what I'll have to see ye through, I says.
It's all ben left to me: chargin' an' creditin', postin', individule ledger, gen'ral ledger, bill-book, discount register, tickler, for'n register, checkin' off the N'York accounts, drawin' off statemunts f'm the ledgers an' bill-book, writin' letters why, the' ain't an hour 'n the day in bus'nis hours some days that the's an hour 't I ain't busy 'bout somethin'. No, sir," continued Chet, "Dave don't give himself no trouble about the bus'nis.
Harum, "I'm apt to speak in par'bles sometimes. I guess you'll git along after a spell, though it mayn't set fust rate on your stomech till you git used to the diet. Say," he said after a moment, "if you'd had a couple o' thousan' more, do you think you'd 'a' stuck to the law bus'nis?" "I'm sure I don't know," replied John, "but I am inclined to think not.
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