. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . hbours in the evening; there was hot flipin abundance, and ginger and cider for thosewho liked it. Tom Crotchet, the fiddler, wascalled, young and old went to dancing, andthe merriest night that ever was known wasthat in which young Bob Merry, who hadbeen lost on the mountain, was found, having REJOICING. 31 been two days and two nights in the cave of(C Old Sarah the hermitess. I could not share in this mirth; I felt toosober and solemn for hilarity. The wholeadventure had sunk deep into my mind,though I did not im
. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . hbours in the evening; there was hot flipin abundance, and ginger and cider for thosewho liked it. Tom Crotchet, the fiddler, wascalled, young and old went to dancing, andthe merriest night that ever was known wasthat in which young Bob Merry, who hadbeen lost on the mountain, was found, having REJOICING. 31 been two days and two nights in the cave of(C Old Sarah the hermitess. I could not share in this mirth; I felt toosober and solemn for hilarity. The wholeadventure had sunk deep into my mind,though I did not immediately understand itsfull effect upon my character, I had beenmade in some degree aware of that weaknesswhich springs from being always dependentupon others ; and a wholesome lesson hadbeen taught me, in finding my life saved byan. old woman, whom a few hours before Ihad treated with rudeness, impertinence, andscorn. I could not but feel humbled, bydiscovering that she had more generous mo-tives of action, a loftier and more noble soul,than I with all my advantages. t *_v. WIT BOUGHT. CHAPTER IV. MY UNCLES INFLUENCE—FORTY YEARSAGO—THE TAVERN—THE HOLIDAY. WHEN I was fifteen years of age I hadmade little progress in education. I couldindeed read and write, and I knew some-thing of arithmetic, but my advance beyondthis was inconsiderable. I will tell you thereason of this. In the first place, my uncle had no veryhigh estimation of what he called larnin; hewas himself a man of action, and believedthat books render people dull and stupid,rather than efficient in the business of life. He kept the village inn, which in thosedays of rum and punch was an institutionof great power and authority. It was com-mon, at the period of which I speak, for theChurch and inn to stand side by side in thetowns; and if one day in the week sobriety andtemperance were preached in the former, hard THE INNKEEPER. 33 drinking and licentiousness were deeplypractised in the latter during the other s
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