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Reads: "'Buy two packages of Pease's hoarhound candy." "Blast the infernal Ledger!" exclaimed the now doubly incensed and indignant Alderman, throwing the paper upon the pavement with the most ineffable disgust, amid the shouts and hurrahs of a score of men who by this time had gathered around the excited Alderman Tom Simmons.
As my church was just off East Broadway, and within a short walk of the Five Points, I took a deep interest in Mr. Pease's Christian undertaking, and aided him by every means in my power. His wife became a member of my church.
The thing advertised was an article called "Pease's Hoarhound Candy;" a very good specific for coughs and colds. It was put up in twenty-five cent packages, and was eventually sold wholesale and retail in enormous quantities. Mr.
Pease's result somewhat, but it is almost certainly within 10 or 15 per cent of the truth. We may therefore conclude that the angular diameter of Betelgeuse is very nearly the same as that of a ball one inch in diameter, seen at a distance of seventy miles.
Pease's shop, glad to work, glad of a chance to be honest, glad to see somebody, like Mr. Pease, who would reach out his hand and pull them out of this SEA OF SIN, instead of standing on shore, with his hands folded, while they were drowning, reading them a tract.
'Well, perhaps I had better tell you, for Miss Pease's sake, who is evidently the only one that cares a straw about me in the matter, that possibly I shall be absent a good many days this week, and perhaps the next too. 'Why, then if I may ask Mr Absolute? 'Because a friend of mine is going to pay me a visit. You remember Charley Osborne, don't you? Of course you do.
The reader would often feel vexed to find that, after reading a quarter of a column of interesting news upon the subject uppermost in his mind, he was trapped into the perusal of one of Pease's hoarhound candy advertisements. Although inclined sometimes to throw down the newspaper in disgust, he would generally laugh at the talent displayed by Mr.
Pease and Samuel, and their helpers, made every path straight and clean, raked the groves of all rubbish, and the two horse mowers and the roller were at work on the lawns, making them like velvet carpets. Nancy came out of Jessie Pease's cottage one day to see a handsome man in a gray suit, with gray spats, and gray hair, and even a gray silk shirt, walking slowly up the drive toward the Hall.
Pease's plan was to seize upon the most prominent topic of interest and general conversation, and discourse eloquently upon that topic in fifty to a hundred lines of a newspaper-column, then glide off gradually into a panegyric of "Pease's Hoarhound Candy."
The moment he entered I began to question him. 'You took those books home, Styles? I said, as quietly as I could, anxious not to startle him, lest it should interfere with the just action of his memory. 'Yes, sir. I took them at once, and gave them into Miss Pease's own hands; at least I suppose it was Miss Pease. She wasn't a young lady, sir. 'All right, I dare say.
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