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Updated: June 17, 2025
On the edge of this settlement, scant two miles from the post-office of Medlin, there was a copper mine, long disused on account of litigation, and I got permission to occupy one of its abandoned cabins. A mountain settlement consists of all who get their mail at the same place. These are air-line measurements.
Medlin placed his papers inside his desk, locked it, took off his coat and hung it on a peg, put on another coat and his hat, and then turned to Bob. "Ready?" "Quite ready." Mr. Medlin led the way out of the counting house, and Bob followed. Mr. Medlin walked fast, and Bob had to step out to keep up with him.
His old acquaintance, Jack Medlin, was sitting on the stool his father had formerly occupied; and Bob was greatly amused at the air of gravity on his face. "Do you wish to see Mr. Bale, or Mr. Medlin, sir?" he asked, "Or can I take your orders?"
I have had a fine opportunity of seeing war, and have had a jolly time of it; and now I am quite ready to settle down, here." Mr. Bale was delighted, on his return, to find Bob. It was just the hour for closing, and he insisted upon Mr. Medlin stopping to take supper with him.
Bob observed a noticeable change in his companion's demeanour, when he arrived at the tree and, on passing the last garden, his face assumed a stolid expression; his brisk, springy walk settled down into a business pace; his words became few; and he was again a steady, and mechanical, clerk. A fortnight later, Bob was summoned to the counting house. "Mr. Bale wishes to see you," Mr. Medlin said.
The breeze had freshened a little, and my boat drifted about fast enough for trollin', and feelin' a little drowsy, I tied the end of the line to the cleets across the knees of the boat, and lay down in the bottom with my hand out over the side holdin' the line. I hadn't laid there long, when I felt a twitch as if something mighty big was medlin' with the other end of the string.
The happiest man, in my opinion, is he who has something to do and yet, not too much; who can, by being free from anxieties regarding it, view his business as an occupation, and a pleasure; and who is its master, and not its slave. "I am thinking of giving Mr. Medlin a small interest in the business.
On Saturday morning Bob said goodbye to his uncle, with an amount of feeling and regret he would have considered impossible, four months previously. Mr. Medlin accompanied him to Southampton, and the journey was a very lively one. "Goodbye, Bob," the clerk said, as they shook hands on the deck of the Antelope.
At five o'clock come down into the counting house. Mr. Medlin will leave at that hour." Bob had hitherto avoided the counting house.
Then Mr. Medlin said, briskly, "So you are going down to your sister's, Bob!" "Yes, that will be first rate, won't it? Of course, I went down in the summer to Canterbury, and hardly expected to go again this year. As I have only been three months here, I did not even think of going. "It will be the last holiday I shall have, for some time.
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