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Updated: May 15, 2025
"There is a sample of my secretary's work," said Bishop Albertson, as he handed an account book to his friend, "and it is as accurate as it is beautiful." Bishop McLaren started when his eyes fell upon the ledger. After a moment's hesitancy he remarked: "Never but in one instance have I seen as fine work. That was the writing of my own dear boy; those capitals are just like his. Ah, well."
She loved to discuss such topics with her devoted admirer, Emily, and liked to be accused of breaking hearts. "We shall be late for supper again," Mrs. Day, busy with daybook and ledger in the shop, would say to the young daughter beside her. "Never mind, mama. Perhaps it is charity not to hurry," Deleah on one occasion responded. "Oh, nonsense, dear!" said Mrs.
"Guess I do! don't get much except the pieces I cut out of papers, but I love 'em, and stick 'em in an old ledger, and keep it down in my cubby among the rocks. I do love THAT man's pieces. They seem to go right to the spot somehow;" and Becky smiled at the name of Whittier as if the sweetest of our poets was a dear old friend of hers. "I like Tennyson better.
Wonder she'll condescend to come and talk plain United States to us Cape Codders, ain't it, John." John Doane admitted that it was a wonder. He seemed to regard Miss Dott as a very wonderful young person altogether. Gertrude glanced up at him, then at her father, and then at the blotter on the desk. She absently played with the pages of the ledger.
Putting aside all work for once, and permitting herself a space of undisturbed leisure, she proceeded to cast up her account with love and life in as clear-headed, accurate a fashion as she would have cast up the columns of cash-book or ledger and found the balance on the credit side.
She entered the vast, dingy factory; the woollen dust, the clammy air of copperas were easier to breathe in; the cramped, sordid office, the work, mere trifles to laugh at; and she bent over the ledger with its hard lines in earnest good-will, through the slow creeping hours of the long day.
Here there was a ledger desk, and a couple of chairs, and a long-legged stool. 'Take the stool, said Uncle Reuben, showing me in very quietly, 'it is fitter for your height, John. Wait a moment; there is no hurry. Then he slipped out by another door, and closing it quickly after him, told the foreman and waiting-men that the business of the day was done.
"How?" asked the girl interestedly, for having taken a part in it, she was American enough to be unwilling to give up; "what have you to suggest what is your plan?" "You are one of Madame's customers?" "Yes." "And, of course, whatever kind of books are kept here, there must be some sort of ledger, so that your bills can go to you every month." The girl made a little grimace.
Writing an official report on this incident was difficult. On one side of the ledger was a huge mass of circumstantial evidence very heavily weighted against the scoutmaster's story being true. On our second trip to Florida, Lieutenant Olsson and I heard story after story about the man's aptitude for dreaming up tall tales.
Others, the thinkers, have gained ideas; they have opened a new account in the ledger of nature and they silently taste the hallowed joys of truth. One of my great days was that of my first acquaintance with oxygen. On that day, when my class was over and all the materials put back in their place, I felt myself grow several inches taller.
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