The Wall street brokers are said to do a good deal of small business for country clergymen, who are moved no doubt with the laudable desire of purifying the New York stock board.
"I don't see that there is much risk," said the Squire, at length.
"The timber is worth more than the mortgage; and if that coal seam does run there, it's a magnificent fortune.

Would you like to try it again in the spring, Phil ?" Like to try it! If he could have a little help, he would work himself, with pick and barrow, and live on a crust.

Only give him one more chance.
And this is how it came about that the cautious old Squire Montague was drawn into this young fellow's speculation, and began to have his serene old age disturbed by anxieties and by the hope of a great stroke of luck.
"To be sure, I only care about it for the boy," he said.

The Squire was like everybody else; sooner or later he must "take a chance." It is probably on account of the lack of enterprise in women that they are not so fond of stock speculations and mine ventures as men.

It is only when woman becomes demoralized that she takes to any sort of gambling.