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And that reminds me: I bet fifty dollars for you to-day, and here's the two hundred. Run it up if you can, but remember what Solomon says about that: 'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent." "I'll take a chance," said the Bald-faced Kid, reaching for the money. "Son," said Old Man Curry, "what's on your mind besides your hat?
The danger of this kind of story is all the greater because many children delight in it and some crave for it in the abstract, but fear it in the concrete. An affectionate aunt, on one occasion, anxious to curry favor with a four-year-old nephew, was taxing her imagination to find a story suitable for his tender years.
"The story, briefly told, is this: Baron Hulot d'Ervy sent out to the province of Oran an uncle of his as a broker in grain and forage, and gave him an accomplice in the person of a storekeeper. This storekeeper, to curry favor, has made a confession, and finally made his escape.
Indeed, the general seems to have taken Master Simon in hand, and talks of showing him the lions when he comes to town, and of introducing him to a knot of choice spirits at the Mulligatawney club; which, I understand, is composed of old nabobs, officers in the Company's employ, and other "men of Ind," that have seen service in the East, and returned home burnt out with curry, and touched with the liver complaint.
Then the fire of questions and answers was presently interrupted by Mills, triumphantly bearing in a fresh dish of curry. "What will the Major take to drink, your ladyship?" he asked. Felstead laughed a little chokingly. "Upon my word, there's something wonderfully sound about Mills!" he said.
We presume it is scarcely necessary to remind the reader that he is never, under any circumstances, to convey his knife to his mouth. Peas are eaten with the fork; tarts, curry, and puddings of all kinds with the spoon. Always help fish with a fish-slice, and tart and puddings with a spoon, or, if necessary, a spoon and fork. Asparagus must be helped with the asparagus-tongs.
The Bald-faced Kid recalled him to earth by his breezy greeting, and what it lacked in reverence it made up in good will. Old Man Curry and the hustler were friends, each possessing trait which the other respected. "Well, old-timer, you put airing your lace curtains a little?" "Eh? What? Oh, good evening, Frank, good evening! I been walking up and down some.
"Your friend Solomon called the turn on the get-rich-quick stuff. 'He that maketh haste' what's the rest of it, old-timer?" "'He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent," quoted Old Man Curry, rolling out the syllables in sonorous procession. "But I reckon not being rich is worrying you more than not being innocent. Who took the roll away from you?"
What do you think about it?" "You goin' to bet your own money, son?" "I've got to do it make or break right here." "How strong are you?" "Just about two hundred bones." "Ah, hah!" Old Man Curry paused a moment for thought and sucked at his straw. "Two hundred at 5 to 2 that'd make seven hundred, wouldn't it? Pretty nice little pile." The Kid's eyes widened.
Since the wandering Comstock and Curry, proverbially unfortunate discoverers, like Marshall, pointed to hundreds of millions for the "silver kings," along Mount Davidson's stony, breast, he gambles daily. The stock board is his play-room. The mining stock exchange gives his maturer years the wilder excitements of the old El Dorado.
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