F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 49

cake of pumpkin of recent-crush to the oven my mother, in her outpouring
simplicity, had slipped in my haversack;  and while pleasantly entertaining
us in this way without pretensions, the most greater whose ardor was
rather it increased from the liquid that he has mixed with his/her water, it recapitulated the
story of his/her first adventure in New York:  "Being covetous of
facilitating the honesty of the Quaker, my companion the General Fopp,
suggested an easy way to get rid himself/herself/themselves some matter. The pocket-book,
he said, without doubt it contained an enormous amount that the unlucky one
owner would be anxious to regain as soon as possible in the
morning, and to that end it would advertise in all the newspapers,
proposing a great reward to the fortunate discoverer as an allurement for
him to preserve his/her honesty. The first footstep would be to find then a
convenient place to count the contents of the pocket-book, and
in consideration of the amount that the Quaker could properly be offered,
as the reward of his/her honesty. Then, after having consulted inside me for
of the few minutes, I followed my companion and the Quaker in the
back living room of a shop of cigar, where we attentively counted the great ones
rolls of notes, and you find the amount to precisely be four thousand
three hundred and twenty-two dollars that the beautiful small sum,
together with papers of great value, showing the owner a Henry,
Paterson, to be a man of great distributions in Wall-road both
submitted to my care. My companion expressed his/her inability to have trust
him with so great an amount of ownership, especially as the
servants in his/her hotel were proverbially tilted for taking the liberties
with the good of other people. To my application, he said, he thought two
one hundred and fifty dollars would be a moderate consideration, since then
the owner without doubt would appraise the restoration of his/her ownership to
twice that sum. I was not possessed of so great a sum;  but being
anxious not to offend the Quaker whose calm gait won completely