It's money in your purse! You can get along without dinner sometimes, or even without a shirt, but without a brush--never! There's nothin' in the world so necessary to rich AN' poor, old AN' young as a good brush!" And with a final burst of enthusiasm the brush-peddler drove off up the hill.

I stood watching him and when he turned around I waved the brush high over my head in token of a grateful farewell.
It was a good, serviceable, friendly brush.

I carried it throughout my wanderings; and as I sit here writing in my study, at this moment, I can see it hanging on a hook at the side of my fireplace..