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him down, and take all the usefulness out of him, and all the self-
respect and everything, then I don't know human nature—ain*t that
so, Thompson ? And even if we were to give him a third of it; why,
in less than six months—'

* Less than s*br iceeks, you'd better say ! said I, warming up and

breaking in. * Unless
he had that three
thousand dollars in
safe hands where he
couldn't touch it, he
would no more last
vou six weeks than

* Of course he
wouldn't,* said
Thompson; 'I've
edited books for that
kind of people; and
the moment they get
their hands on the
royalty — maybe it's
three thousand, may-
be its two thousand

'AIN'T THAT SO,
THOMPSON ? 3

* What business
has that shoemaker
•with two thousand
dollars, I should like to know ?' broke in
Bogers, earnestly. *A man perhaps per-
fectly contented now, there in Mannheim,
surrounded by his own class, eating his bread with the appetite
which laborious industry alone can give, enjoying his humble life,
honest, upright, pure in heart; and blest!—yes, I say blest! blesfc
above all the myriads that go in silk attire and walk the empty
artificial round of social folly—but just you put that temptation before
him once i just you lay fifteen hundred dollars before a man like tbat,
and say------*