. Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry . who was now a thriving shoemaker, with awife and two bright-eyed laughing bade them good-bye, with many tears, andcarried with me their kindest wishes. Having taken leave of all my friends, Iset out on my journey to New York on foot,provided with two or three letters of Lntro GAMBLING. 129 duction, furnished by Raymond and his bro-ther, the minister, and with about five dollarsin my pocket. With a heavy and doubting heart I pro-ceeded on my way to New York. My situ-ation was, in every respect gloomy and de-. pressing, i was
. Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry . who was now a thriving shoemaker, with awife and two bright-eyed laughing bade them good-bye, with many tears, andcarried with me their kindest wishes. Having taken leave of all my friends, Iset out on my journey to New York on foot,provided with two or three letters of Lntro GAMBLING. 129 duction, furnished by Raymond and his bro-ther, the minister, and with about five dollarsin my pocket. With a heavy and doubting heart I pro-ceeded on my way to New York. My situ-ation was, in every respect gloomy and de-. pressing, i was alone in tne world, andutterly unpractised in taking care of proceeded on my journey, but the snowwas so deep, that at night I had made littleprogress. The fourth day after my depar-ture, however, just at evening, I entered thecity of New York, and took up my lodging? 130 WIT BOUGHT. at a small tavern in Pearl street. Haviugtaken supper, I went to the bar-room, whereabout a dozen men were drinking and smok-ing. One of them, rather genteely dressed,came and sat by me and we fell into con-versation. After a little while, he orderedsome flip, and we drank it. I felt my heartwarmed, and my tongue loosed, and I toldthe stranger my story. He appeared to takegreat interest in me and pretty soon pro-posed to go into another room. Here weretwo other persons; and we sat down—mynew friend ordering more liquor, and intro-ducing me to the strangers. The liquor wasbrought, and also a pack of cards. In aneasy way my companion began to shuffle thepack, and handed them to me
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