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COMMISERATION FOR CLERKS.
SHOPKEEPERS is not enough
thought of,” said Mrs.
Partington, after having
been out making some
purchases. “How they
do toil and how they suffer!
One dear pretty
young man, with a nice black coat
on and a gold chain and a starched
collar, with a carrivan on his neck,
told me with tears in his eyes that
he was selling to me at less than he
gave for it; and I bought it out of
pity, though I knowed I could get it five cents a yard
cheaper next door. Talk about Moses being executed on
one string, indeed! These poor creturs are Rogerses,
every one of 'em, by the yard-stick, and are all the time
a dying.”
There 's a constant flow of the milk of compassion in
her breast-inexhaustible; like the purse of the gentleman
in the story, the more that is taken from it the
more remains. The allusion to Moses was drawn from
an advertisement of a prodigy violinist, who was to play
a violin solo, from the oratorio of “Moses,” upon one
string.
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