Beadle's Dime Novels No. 126: Old Jupe — page 29: what you’re looking at

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CHANGING THE MONEY. 31 “T would get it changed into gold, which will be safer, in Case of banks failing, or fire.” “T believe I will, Nettie; I don’t like to deposit it in these unsafe times. J’ve enough, without touching this, to last me ‘until Luke returns. J ought to be very careful about the gold, though, so much of that is counterfeit, lately. Mr. Brown told me, yesterday, he’d taken a five-dollar gold-piece Which was filled; and that two or three merchants had been imposed on by the same coin. Someone has been through the village again, scattering these things. I should think the counterfeiters would be careful how they came arousd New Bristol after the lesson they were taught last winter.” “To be sure, you can’t be too cpredal I would have it tried before I took it.” Father Miller’s advice agreeing atthe Annette’s, Mrs, Bryant exchanged her notes for gold. There being no banks in the Village, she went to the merchants. Mr. Brown did not hap- pen to have so much on hand, and she had to apply to three different pérsons, before she got it all, each one letting her have what he had by him. “There,” said Annette, when Mary had locked the cash up - a little sewing-box, and that again in a bureau-drawer, “you’ve so much laid up in case of accidents. That will furnish your new house when you get it built.” Scarcely more than a week after this, Mrs. Parcell received a letter from her husband, asking her to join him in St. Louis, as he had finished up his Mississippi business. “Well, Molly, I suppose I shall have to go. But as you are at the top of the mountain now, it won’t take so long to go down the other side,” referring to the, fact that. half tine time of Luke's expected absence had passed. “T shali miss you, Nettie; but if Mr. Parcell asks for you, I mustn’t set up my rights in the case.” “Well, take my advice, and be as jolly as possible. Get every thing and go every where, as I do. Take your com- fort while you are young. May be IJ shall see Luke before you do, if we return to New Orleans, though J don’t intend to go there before frost. Parcell is acclimated « but I’m not. Pil bring Parcell with me, next time I come, so that you can Sce he’s not se bad as you think he is.” comicloooks.com