I need not know anything of the business--_he_ would manage all that.

What I should have to do, would be, to take care of all the money that came in--a post for which both he and I thought I was peculiarly fitted.

And the scheme ?-- Perhaps you will laugh when I tell you.

It was selling blacking! There is nothing to be ashamed of in it, though.

Have not Day and Martin made a fortune by it, and a name in all the world?
Has not many a proud merchant prince risen to eminence on a more ignoble commodity?
Blacking! There is something noble in causing the feet of posterity to shine; and to be the means of testing the standing of a would-be gentleman! Clean boots are an essentiality of society; why should I shrink from the responsibility of helping to produce them?
Well, whether you consider it a lowering trade or not, Brown of Philadelphia suggested our "going into" blacking together.