The Wheels of Chance

to the warehouse, where the various articles you have selected will presently be packed by the senior porter and sent to you. Returning thence to his pa

full of white packages containing, as inscriptions testify, Lino, Hd Bk, and Mull. You might imagine to see them that the two were both intent upon nothing but smoothness of textile and rectitude of fold. But to tell the truth, neither is thinking of the mechanical duties in hand. The assistant is dreaming of the delicious time--only four hours off now--when he will resume the tale of his

er in his hand. The apprentice becomes extremely active. The shopwalker eyes th

he uncertainties of dismounting. "They're going fai

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se Briggs will get next week, and he will have to wait until September--when the weather is often uncertain. He is naturally of a sanguine disposition. All drapers have to be, or else they could never h

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cale of precedence of the Drapery Emporium. Mr. Hoopdriver in alternating spasms anon straightens h