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Making's Fortune.BYMBK TWAIN.. Samuel McF—- was a watchman in a bank. He'was poor but honest, and .bis. life was without reproaeb. The trouble with him was that he felt that he was hot appreciated.. Hjs salary was ■only four dollars a week; and when; he asked to have it raised the President, the Cashier, and the Board of Directors glared at him through theliv spectacles, -and frowned on him and told him to go out and stop his 'insolence;-J when -he .knew business tfas drill - aria- the^ baukrlAqtcofolBd«bih-tlwiicould not Its expenses now,; let I ai-.a* pd•*aalone lavish one dollar a week on such a miserable worm:as’ Samuel McF-—/' ; And then Samuel McF—— felt depress-; ed arid sad, and the hauglity- scorn of the President and‘XJhihler cdt him: toTKfl BOOir^gg^pmiui uri.\j±± bbiibhbeida.ftn• r • • *aide yard and bow his venerablefcwen-ty-fomvinclKhead, arid* weep gallons of tearspverhisin5ighifi«'ancei!'and pray, that he might!Wlt;riiide: worthy* of Jthe Cashier’s and Presidents rpolite-;,atten-' ~'r • •i*' :*;r' Cl’J * » ‘ One~ night a happy; thought’ struck* hirri;a gleam of ligtatr'burst upon bis’, soul, and gazing down the dim vista of years with his eyes all blinded with jpy-ourteare he saw. himself rich honored :: and • respected;J So • Samuel:-McPVr--i‘fooled around and gc^ a jimmy, a monkey - wrench, a cross cut - saw,* a cold chisel, a drill, arid about half a tohj of. gun-powder ana hifcro-glycerine; and all i thosethings.*; Then in the dead of night he-went to the fire-proof safe;’and, after working affit fSta while, burst the door and brickvinto fttP ibimcfrtal smash with :each perfect aaccese that there was not,enough of that cafe lbfkto'makeft carpet, - tack; McF^- then proceeded to load up with-coupons, greenbacks, currency andf specie, and to- nail all - the odd change-that was lying anywhere,\ so that he pranced oat of the hank- with over-one million dollars on him. He : then retired to an unassuming residenceodt of town; and Bent word'to tho de-*. . , ■ * tectives whore he was. 1 ; ; i •. Aide tee live called rin him one day .with ii soothing note from’ the Cashier.rMr.-McF treated It with lofty scorn.Detectives eaUed on him ovory.daywifcb humble notes from the President, Cashier an d Board of Directors'. At las^ the bank officers gofcnp a magnificent av1?-per, to which Mr: MbF-^was Invltea.1-. He cbtpo, and as the bank-Qfflcersbowed -jTTnrnrTlurfosT before^hira.pondered over the’fiftter past, and his soul was. filled vrttbf wild’ -oxnitration. Bo-fore he drove away in his carriage thatnight it was all fixed that McF -wasto-keephalf a million of that -money aad to be unmolestecLif he returned the other . half. He-fulfilled-his contract like an honest man, but refused with haughty disdain, the offer of the* Cashier to marry hIs daughter. •* ;Mac is now honored and respected.— He moves In the best society, he brows-' ea around in pcrple-and fine linen and other good clothes, and enjoys'' himself first-rate-- And often now he takes bis infant son on his knee and tells him of hia early Jifei.anih instills1 holy - principles into the child’s- mind, ahd shows .him how, by indostry and perseverance,frugality and nitro-glycerine, monkey wrenches, cross-cut suws and familiarity with the detective systein, even the poor may rise to affluence and respecta-.■ .... • .... ’ 1 • * ■; * -s • *■biiifcy.’ ;CnIfided
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Indiana Democrat
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Nov 02, 1871
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