Onward!
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BROWN'S LECTURE TOUR.
I.--HOW HE CAME TO DO IT.
My last speculation had proved a failure. I was left with a stock of
fifty impracticable washing-machines on my hands, and a cash capital of
forty-four cents. With the furniture of my room, these constituted my
total assets. I had an unsettled account of forty dollars with Messrs.
Roller & Ems, printers, for washing-machine circulars, cards, etc.;
and--
Rap, rap, rap!
[_Enter boy_.]
'Mr. Peck says as how you'll please call around to his office and settle
up this afternoon, sure.'
[_Exit boy_.]
_New York, Nov. 30, 1859_.
Mr. GREEN D. BROWN,
_TO_ JOHN PECK, _Dr_.
_To Rent of Room to date_ $9 00
_Rec'd Pay't_,
I came to the emphatic conclusion that I was 'hard up.'
I kept bachelor's hall in Franklin Street, in apartments not altogether
sumptuous, yet sufficiently so for my purposes,--to wit, to sit in and
to sleep in; and inasmuch as I took my meals amid the gilded splendors
of the big saloon on the corner of Broadway, I was not disposed to
reproach myself with squalor. Yet the articles of furniture in my room
were so far removed, separately or in the aggregate, from anything like
the superfluous, that when I calmly deliberated what to part with, there
was nothing which struck me as a luxury or a comfort as distinct from a
necessary of life.
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