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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... RUPERT CABELL. CHAPTER 1. It was a cool autumnal evening. Mr. and Mrs. Warren with their two children, James and Eliza, were sitting before their cheerful fire. Mrs. W. was busily employed ... More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... RUPERT CABELL. CHAPTER 1. It was a cool autumnal evening. Mr. and Mrs. Warren with their two children, James and Eliza, were sitting before their cheerful fire. Mrs. W. was busily employed in examining and repairing a small basket of stockings, so that they might be ready for the approaching winter. Eliza was making her first attempt at knitting, and interrupted her mother very frequently by asking her to take up the stitches she had dropped. James sat sideways in a chair, whistling to himself a new tune which he had learned, beating time with his head: occasionally a sound would escape his lips, but x with these exceptions his music was inaudible, except to his mind's ear. Mr. Warren sat in his arm-chair, and looked upon the burning hickory as steadily and silently as if he had been reading. He at length looked up and looked round on the circle as if he wanted somebody to talk. "Papa," said James, " will storekeepers trust boys?" "Not many of them will," said Mr. Warren. "Why won't they trust them?" "Those who are good men, knowing that parents don't wish to have their children get in debt, and that it is wrong for the children to get in debt, will not trust them, of course; and bad men are afraid they will never get their pay." "Can't.they make boys pay their debts?" � No." "Well, Mr. Doane told Jim Beach that if he didn't pay him he would put him in jail; and then Jim went and paid him: he owed him a dollar all but five cents, and he took that for interest. I heard Jim brag how he had paid him, and how much it was." "Yes," said Eliza, " and do you know how he paid him?" "He got money somehow, I suppose," said James. "I guess he did get it somehow; he took a dollar bill from his sister's purse, and paid it with that." "What did she do?" "She cried,...

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