AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 337 



It seemed to mean something, hence I paused to 

 look and consider, never noticing the man who re 

 joiced in being proprietor of this diversified exhi 

 bition. But though not observing him, it seems 

 that he had noticed me. 



&quot; Right side up, sir, and mean to keep so,&quot; he ex 

 claimed, rising from his seat, coming to where I 

 stood, and extending his hand. My astonishment 

 was really very great, but he exhibited none. His 

 emotion appeared to be that of satisfaction, open, 

 manly, heart-felt. I had known him as the expert 

 foreman of a great machine shop, overlooking sev 

 eral hundred hands, and making twenty dollars a 

 week ; but at a glance I conjectured how the matter 

 stood. 



&quot; Why, how is this ?&quot; I asked. 



&quot; Swallowed my pride three months ago,&quot; he re 

 sponded. &quot;Work was dead, employers broke, 

 nothing to do, had a wife and family, only fifty 

 dollars in pocket, and with twenty of it set up this 

 table. It sounds like coming down, and it was hard 

 to undergo this publicity, but look at my hands, 

 they are clean, and I am not ashamed to look any 

 man in the face. My pride has left me gone to 

 trouble some one else. Wife and daughters make 

 the cakes and beer, keep up the table, and the 

 table keeps up us. How does it strike an old ac 

 quaintance like you, or have you any thing better 

 on hand ?&quot; 



Here it all was in a nutshell, just as I had some 

 how conjectured. I looked upon the man as a hero 

 he was a hero. Depend upon it that all such 

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