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Updated: May 1, 2025
He made a very picturesque thing of the discovery of the paint-mine.
We did pretty well with the hotel, and my wife she was always at me to paint up. Well, I put it off, and PUT it off, as a man will, till one day I give in, and says I, 'Well, let's paint up. Why, Pert, m'wife's name's Persis, 'I've got a whole paint-mine out on the farm. Let's go out and look at it. So we drove out.
It got to be a kind of joke with us; and I guess that paint-mine did as much as any one thing to make us boys clear out as soon as we got old enough. All my brothers went West, and took up land; but I hung on to New England and I hung on to the old farm, not because the paint-mine was on it, but because the old house was and the graves.
The colossal fortune of Colonel Silas Lapham lay at the bottom of a hole which an uprooted tree had dug for him, and which for many years remained a paint-mine of no more appreciable value than a soap-mine."
"Yes; but we've about got to the end of our string. I expect to be under a roof of my own on Clover Street before long. I suppose," said Bartley, returning to business, "that you didn't let the grass grow under your feet much after you found out what was in your paint-mine?"
Well, you know, I felt as if it was a kind of harumscarum experiment, all the while; and I presume I shouldn't have tried it but I kind of liked to do it because father'd always set so much store by his paint-mine. And when I'd got the first coat on," Lapham called it CUT, "I presume I must have set as much as half an hour; looking at it and thinking how he would have enjoyed it.
Well, it was just after two or three boats had burnt up out West, and a lot of lives lost, and there was a great cry about non-inflammable paint, and I guess that was what was in her mind. 'Well, I guess it ain't any gold-mine, Persis, says I; 'but I guess it IS a paint-mine. I'm going to have it analysed, and if it turns out what I think it is, I'm going to work it.
Well, I called my wife out, I'd tried it on the back of the house, you know, and she left her dishes, I can remember she came out with her sleeves rolled up and set down alongside of me on the trestle, and says I, 'What do you think, Persis? And says she, 'Well, you hain't got a paint-mine, Silas Lapham; you've got a GOLD-mine. She always was just so enthusiastic about things.
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