Digital heart book

Unsuccessful
speculators were thus always selling clothes, books,
banjos, and sleeve-links, in order to pay their
differences; the successful, on the other hand, were
often tempted to realise, and enjoy some return upon
their profits. Now I wanted thirty dollars' worth of
artist truck, for I was always sketching in the woods;
my allowance was for the time exhausted; I had begun to
regard the exchange (with my father's help) as a place
where money was to be got for stooping; and in an evil
hour I realised three thousand dollars of the college
paper and bought my easel.
It was a Wednesday morning when the things arrived, and
set me in the seventh heaven of satisfaction. My
father (for I can scarcely say myself) was trying at
this time a "straddle" in wheat between Chicago and New
York; the operation so called is, as you know, one of
the most tempting and least safe upon the chess-board
of finance. On the Thursday, luck began to turn
against my father's calculations; and by the Friday
evening I was posted on the boards as a defaulter for
the second time.


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