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"Don't go," said John. "Come in. Of course you know Mr. Euston." "Glad to see ye," said David, advancing and shaking hands. "You folks talkin' bus'nis?" he asked before sitting down. "I am trying to persuade Mr. Lenox to do me a great favor," said Mr. Euston. "Well, I guess he won't want such an awful sight o' persuadin'," said David, taking a chair, "if he's able to do it.
"Yes," said David, "the' was two boys an' a sister. The oldest son, Alferd, went into the law an' done bus'nis in Albany, an' afterw'ds moved to New York; but he's always kept up the old place here. The old man left what was a good deal o' propity fer them days, an' Alf he kept his share an' made more.
Part o' that cap'tal," he resumed, "consistin' of a quarter an' some odd cents, was invested in the cirkis bus'nis, an' the rest on't the cap'tal, an' all the cash cap'tal that I started in bus'nis with was the ten cents your husband give me that day, an' here," said David, striking the papers in his left hand with the back of his right, "here is the dividends!
Now if you was to say to him bein' in his church an' all thet, I says, 'that you c'd get him the right kind of a hoss, he'd believe you, an' you an' me 'd be doin' a little stroke of bus'nis, an' a favor to the dominie into the bargain. The dominie's well off, I says, 'an' c'n afford to drive a good hoss." "What did the deakin say?" asked Aunt Polly as David stopped for breath.
It ain't a bad idee, in the hoss bus'nis anyway, to be willin' to let the other feller make a dollar once 'n a while." After that aphorism they waited in silence for a few minutes, and then David called out over his shoulder, "How be you gettin' along, Mis' Cullom?" "I guess I'm fixed," she answered, and David walked slowly back into the parlor, leaving John in the front office.
"Dave Harum!" cried the widow, rising to her feet, "you ought to 'a' ben a king!" "Wa'al," said David with a grin, "I don't know much about the kingin' bus'nis, but I guess a cloth cap 'n' a hoss whip 's more 'n my line than a crown an' scepter. An' now," he added, "'s we've got through 'th our bus'nis, s'pose you step over to the house an' see Polly. She's expectin' on ye to dinner.
"Wa'al, s'pose you think about it a little now, if you hain't got no pressin' engagement. Bus'nis don't seem to be very rushin' this mornin'." "Why?" said John. "Because," said David impressively, "you're goin' somewhere right off, quick 's you c'n git ready, an' you may 's well be makin' up your mind where." John looked up in surprise.
When it come along fall, I was doin' well enough so 't she could give up bus'nis, an' I hired a house an' we set up housekeepin'. It was really more on my account than her'n, fer I got to kind o' feelin' that when the meat was tough or the pie wa'n't done on the bottom that I was 'sociated with it, an' gen'ally I wanted a place of my own.
The bankin' bus'nis has been so neglected since this feller come that it don't amount to much any more," and he laid his hand on John's shoulder, who colored a little as he caught a look of demure amusement in the somber eyes of the elder sister. "After that," he said, "I think I had better get back to my neglected duties," and he bowed his adieus.
'Wa'al, I says, 'I guess I c'n resk it if you can, but I didn't buy him fer a saddle hoss, an' if I'm to own him fer any len'th of time I'd ruther he'd fergit the saddle bus'nis, an' in any case, I says, 'I wouldn't like him to git a sore back, an' then agin, I says, 'I hain't got no saddle. "'Wa'al, she says, givin' her head a toss, 'if I couldn't sit straight I'd never ride agin.
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