"
"I know the feeling," I said earnestly. "There was a time, Bunch,
that whenever my wife mentioned the word money to me I could see a
horse come into the room and shake his mane at me."
"And then," Bunch continued, "Uncle William said to me, 'Jefferson,
my boy, Alice tells me you've already saved up five thousand, and
I'm proud of you. I didn't like you at first, because I thought
you were a harum scarum like your friend, John Henry; but now that
you've developed such manly traits of character I'm going to take
four thousand of your money, put the same amount in for Alice, and
start you in business.' Say, John, I wanted to go through the
parlor floor and on through the earth and then out through the
busiest fort at Port Arthur, and let a Jap shell knock my silly
head off."
"We're both up against it for fair," I said; "and we'll have to get
in the ice-cutting business right away. As I told you, this Signor
Petroskinski is the marvel of the age, and we can simply coin money
with him. Two thousand dollars will start the driving wheels--gi'
me your thousand and I'll put it with mine."
Bunch dug out his last bundle of big bills and I gave him the
partnership articles I had framed up.
"We'll open up in New Rochelle," I said, "next Thursday night.
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