spent it all; but not on himself. He supported, mainly, his mother
and a younger brother and sister. A good chance for a small, but
safe beginning, was seen by the uncle, which would require only
about a thousand dollars as an investment. In his opinion it would
be just the thing for Jacob and the nephew. Supposing that Jacob had
four or five hundred dollars laid by, it was his intention, if he
approved of the thing, to furnish his nephew with a like sum, in
order to join him and to enter into business. But the acknowledgment
of Jacob that he had not saved a dollar, and that he kept no private
account, settled the matter in the merchant's mind, as far as he was
concerned.

About a month afterward, Jacob met his employer's nephew, who said,

"I am going into business."

"You are?"

"Yes."

"What are you going to do?"

"Open a commission store."

"Ah! Can you get any good consignments?"

"I am to have the agency for a new mill, which has just commenced
operations, besides consignments of goods from several small
concerns at the East."