70
[January,
Love and Skates.
LOVE AND SKATES. IN TWO PARTS. PART I. were all honest and foolish but He, John Churm, honest and wise, was off the West, with his Herculean shoulders at the wheels of dead-locked railroad. These honest fellows did not wish Dunderbunk fail for several rea sons. First, was not pleasant lose
rectors
I.
one.
to
to
it
to
From
no
commissions, dividends, no salaries, —nothing, indeed, but abuse from the
of
a
of in
in of in
a
in
to
in
Inefficient Whiffler whimpered out his The confessions utive are sorry stuff
impotent
read.
exec Whiffler's
long, dismal complaint shall not re peated. prosperous con He had taken cern, had carried things his own
which nobody wanted arrears his hands.
He
buy. He was He had tried
to
it
worked
raw material lavishly, and badly into half-ripe material,
to
had bought
in
be
to
of
to
is
of
picked.
It
lit
story.
way, and now failure was inevitable.
Di
a
its
pomp
stockholders, and the reputation thieves. say, five That the ten are pick pockets; the other five, pockets happened that the Dunderbunk
to
go
If
his pompous manner, with tle collapsed, pro tempore.
to
all
a
no
its
in
ish: five wise, who bag the Company's funds salaries and commissions for in paper; five foolish, who get dorsing
“State the case, Mr. Superintendent Whiffler,” said President Brummage,
be
Di
Board ten rectors, five are wise and five are fool
was the ques
avoid this disaster?—that tion.
in
Dun
toga was torn, and might presently rags beyond repair. The first rent would inaugurate universal rupture. How
an
the
of
of
of
proud
Dunderbunk"failed, the
a
to
If
derbunk Foundry. Now, not seldom,
advertise
which his name
of
America were not.
go
the whole file. There were ten Directors
ments boards figured.
ly
the tenth
Everybody and everything was ready fail. the hindmost brick went, down would
walked down town toga made the newspaper
on
if
it in on
all
so
of
of
vanish
on
in
all
the green inch-worms every June, the tenth that June the money had buried itself and was as
As
the first
lend his
every new enter them might have long patchwork
name and take stock Any one prise.
of
a
as
a
ed
sud
and primed for destruction, had denly sailed upon Credit.
Each was
Wall-Street fashion, invited
of
or
and sunshine had fled from Wall Street. puff Noisy Crisis towing black Panic, ing steam-tug drags three-decker cock
be
many companies.
Brum
President
these gentlemen was picked great
to
Well they might be forlorn It was the rosy summer solstice, the longest and fairest day of the year. But rose-col
of
mage down, each one the pockets
all
the green table, forlorn as the guests at a Barmecide feast.
to
reputations?
in
be
Third, danger. investment would what would become of their Directorial
to
President Brummage forthwith convoked his Directors. And here they sat around
Second, one impor their investment. tant failure might betray Credit Crisis heels, whereupon every with Panic its
CONSTERNATION | Consternation in the back office of Benjamin Brummage, Esq., banker in Wall Street. Yesterday down came Mr. Superintend ent Whiffler, from Dunderbunk, up the North River, to say, that, “unless some thing be done, at once, the Dunderbunk Foundry and Iron-Works must wind up.”
a
at
A KNOT AND A MAN TO CUT IT.
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