. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . •ive got a terrible buxch on my side. mi have a piano •> Yes, replied the landlady, its a new one, it costseventy guineas; Aramantha Amelia is learning to play it,and we have one of the first masters in the city to teach her. And you have new furniture ? 502 DIP Yuli: sciiXE IX YOUR OWN GRAVY. we have new furniture and our apartments aresplendidly furnished. How did you get all these things?Ill tell you; it s the fools pence that got carpenter thought fur a moment. Fools pence. liesaid, as he looked at the money in his
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . •ive got a terrible buxch on my side. mi have a piano •> Yes, replied the landlady, its a new one, it costseventy guineas; Aramantha Amelia is learning to play it,and we have one of the first masters in the city to teach her. And you have new furniture ? 502 DIP Yuli: sciiXE IX YOUR OWN GRAVY. we have new furniture and our apartments aresplendidly furnished. How did you get all these things?Ill tell you; it s the fools pence that got carpenter thought fur a moment. Fools pence. liesaid, as he looked at the money in his hand. There arethree of them, and he put the money ^_. in his pocket; you 11 get no more ofmine. Now, then, let the working-man give up his beer and spirits,and he will find at the end of theyear an accumulation of propertythat will astonish him. m^?] Dr. Brown, of Dal-keith, tells a good storyof a poor drunkard whoentered a public-housewith a scone — Ithink that s what they jf1,call it — a scone, asoft biscuit, in his jacketpocket; he had nothingelse in it, his moneyhad all been left at thebar. He sat down ona bench by the kitchen fire, over which the landlady was fry-ing bacon. When she turned her back, he dipped his -sconeinto the gravy and munched it. and dipped and ate again andagain. Finally the landlady caught him. called him a drunkenlout, and thrust him to the door with the remark. Dip yourscone in your own gravy. He went away and thought ofthe earnings he had spent there and the misery he had broughtupon himself, and. three months after, he passed the door, neat A DINNER ON 1111. SLY. A LEAF FROM MY CONNECTICUT EXPERIENCE. 5
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