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Most of my father's tools were sold at public vendue, which brought in a little ready money. There was straw to be braided at one and a half, sometimes two cents per yard; in summer huckleberries were picked and sold for three and four cents a quart.
Have a vendue, and sell out everything before the snow flew, and let the State take the farm and get what it could for it, and turn over the balance that was left after the taxes; the interest of the savings-bank mortgage would soon eat that up. The long, loose cough took him, and another cough answered it like an echo from the barn, where his son was giving the horses their feed.
And there was that in Ruth's manner in what she gave him and what she withheld that would have made a hero of a very much less promising character than Philip Sterling. Among the assets of the Bolton property, the Ilium tract was sold, and Philip bought it in at the vendue, for a song, for no one cared to even undertake the mortgage on it except himself.
And for the last time illustrations of Lone and its glories went forth over every part of the world where the English language is spoken, or the English mails penetrate. Another heavy blow fell upon the doomed duke. Even while the grand vendue was still in progress the duchess died of grief.
for the note, in the publisher's own handwriting, said this, and more: "DEAR SIR, I shall be glad to send you fifteen guineas immediately, in return for your article on General Pope's Campaign, if the price will suit you." But I suppressed my enthusiasm. I spoke patronizingly to the young gentleman. Dr. Johnson, at the brewer's vendue, could not have been more learnedly sonorous.
We were thankful, however, that no more lives were lost during the vendue, which was commenced with the stock; this occupied two days. The reader will see that we had cause to be grateful, when he takes into consideration that drinking and fighting was the order of the day, and drunkenness and carousing the order of the night.
"I don't care a fig for that. A protested note would be a worse exposure. I must have the money. We can board for a couple or three years, or keep house in a plain way, until I make up some of the losses sustained by our folly." Mrs. Tompkins was passive. A vendue was called, and three thousand dollars in cash realized.
She was going to the Faulkner vendue, she informed them, and her heart was set on three wooden wash tubs and seven yards of ingrain carpet advertised in the list of household goods offered for sale. "My daughter's going to set up for herself next fall," she said happily, "and that ingrain will be just the thing for her spare room."
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine; and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon! For the Vendue opened, and they began to buy extravagantly; notwithstanding all his cautions, and their own fear of taxes. I found the good man had thoroughly studied my Almanacs, and digested all I had dropped on those topics during the course of five and twenty years.
We are offered, by the terms of this Vendue, Six Months' Credit; and that, perhaps, has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do, when you run in debt? You give to another, power over your liberty! If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor!
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