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Well, he buys pictures now for Americans who want galleries in their houses. He bought his whole collection for Stout the great dealer in hams. Why, Miller can tell the money value within five dollars, at sight, of any picture in Europe. He's safe, too. Never invests in pictures that aren't sure to go up in price. Getting rich! And began as a candy drummer! No, ma'am! Art's no mystery.
Let not my reader mistake; it was not a murderous weapon loaded with powder and ball, but a little sturdy stone pottle charged to the muzzle with a double dram of true Dutch courage, which the knowing Antony Van Corlear carried about him by way of replenishing his valor, and which had dropped from his wallet during his furious encounter with the drummer.
And before long matters grew much worse, when, becoming emboldened, the ghostly drummer laid aside his drum to play practical, and sometimes exceedingly painful, jokes on the members of the household. Curiously enough, his malice was chiefly directed against Mompesson's children, who poor little dears had certainly never worked him any injury.
I can get you shipped across to Guernsey to-morrow, if you say the word." "That would do very well, ma'am: but if you ask me to choose " "I do." "Then I'll choose to be a soldier," said I stoutly. "H'm! You'll have to grow to it." "I could start as a drummer, ma'am." The drum in Major Brooks's summer-house had put that into my head. "My father can manage it, I am sure!" cried Isabel.
Directly in came a drummer for a grocery house, and began telling how much his sales had been in that town: To one grocer a car-load each of rice, nutmegs, cinnamon and pepper, besides several hundred barrels of flour and as many chests of tea. I told him I didn't doubt his word, but would thank him to give me back my hat.
As soon as his eyes were shut, she turned a wishing-ring and said, "Rise, water. Fishes, come out." Instantly the water rose on high like a white mist, and moved away with the other clouds, and the fishes sprang on the shore and laid themselves side by side each according to his size and kind. When the drummer awoke, he saw with amazement that all was done.
" You must bring the girls down and take dinner with me," he said. " I'm afraid you keep her cooped up out there. I'll get a box for Joe Jefferson." " Not me," answered the drummer. " Sure I'll come." This pleased Hurstwood immensely. He gave Drouet no credit for any feelings toward Carrie whatever.
Your mother is right, Frank, in that, as in every thing else, she is perfectly right!" "It isn't too late yet is it? to have friends such as you like. I am sure you can if you will," said Frank. "You have almost made me think so," answered the old drummer. "You have brought back to my heart more of its youth and freshness than I had felt for years. I want you to know that, my boy."
That on the glass-mountain we sat hour by hour? That I rescued thy life from the witch's power? Didst thou not plight thy troth to me? Drummer, drummer, hearken to me!" But the drummer, who was stupefied with the sleeping-draught, could not be aroused. Sadly next morning she went back to her hut in the forest.
"We parted, and he was immediately after shot dead. We were next taken and tied, and the adjutant brought a small whip made of cotton, which consisted of a number of strands and knotted at the ends; but these knots were all cut off by the adjutant before the drummer took it, which made it not worse than to have been whipped with cotton yarn.
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