Timothy Crump's Ward: A Story of American Life

y fit, and postponing the construction of his boat to a more favo

his wife were

he commenced, hesitatingly, "I don't mind saying th

asked Mrs. Cr

d for food. I know we shall get along some way;

inquired his wif

y dollars, comes due to-morrow, and I

r. Colma

e is, Mary. There ain't much feeling about him

are doing h

you never hear how he

was

came round, he was in about the same situation with ourselves,-a little worse even, for his wife was sick, a

?" asked Mrs. C

g more lenient with us. I can't but

which will perhaps occur to the reader,

ad an instinctive foreboding a

om. No one, to look at him, would have suspected the hardness

e, affably, "I trust you and your

, is continued to us," s

uch a scene of comfort as this. You've got a comfortable home, and dog-cheap, too. All my other tenants are grumbling to think you don't hav

leasantly, but the pill

he cooper soberly, "you have chosen rath

od sir?" inquired th

s depression; my own trade in particular has suffered great

st something of

be able to pay my quar

dly. "Perhaps you can make it u

he first time, in five years that I've lived here, that thi

harder," said Colman, harshly. "It is hardly honest t

er, earnestly. "No one ever yet lost anything b

ord shook

ances I am compelled by a prudent regard to my own interests to warn you that, in case your rent is not ready to-morrow, I shal

may as well say that now; and it's no use my agree

e subject. We won't talk of it now; I shall be round to-morro

as usual," answere

k, if you will allow us to remain here a f

house, and they wish to come in immediately. Therefore I shall be obliged to ask you to move out to-morrow. In fact tha

of bitterness unusual to him. "If we are to be turned out

of business. I have an article to dispose of. There are two bidders; yourself and another person. Th

; but you must excuse me if I think of it in another light, when I reflect

ppointed, that's all. Just take to-night to sleep on it, and I've no doubt you'll think better of it and of me. But positively I have stayed longer than

e landlord, leaving beh

know how it seems to others, but for my part I never say them words to any one unless I really wish 'em well, a

silent repugnance, mingled, it may be, with a shade of contempt, for the man who ha

t vacant in this neig

at the corner, belon

etter one

same that we have been paying. He

't we g

at we had failed to pay our

hat nothing but the hard times woul

ave lightened my heart a little. I

thing that Mr. Colman said that didn't sound so well

you mea

reading the verse, 'Never have I seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging br

p in time of need. Let us put away all anxious c

rest thoughtfull

length. The last sands of the old year were runnin