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Title: Rich Enough
a tale of the times

Author: Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee

Release Date: October 29, 2007 [eBook #23231]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1837 Whipple and Damrell edition by David Price,
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RICH ENOUGH;
A TALE OF THE TIMES

BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THREE EXPERIMENTS OF LIVING."

And while they were eating and drinking, there came a great wind from
the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell
upon them.

Third Edition.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY WHIPPLE & DAMRELL,
No. 9 Cornhill.

NEW YORK:--SAMUEL COLMAN,
No. 114 Fulton Street.

1837.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by
WHIPPLE AND DAMRELL,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

CHAPTER I.

"Welcome," said Mr. Draper, the rich merchant, to his brother, who
entered his counting-room one fine spring morning. "I am truly glad to
see you--but what has brought you to the city, at this _busy country_
season, when ploughing and planting are its life and sinews?"

"A motive," said Howard, smiling, "that I am sure will need no apology
with you--_business_! I have acquired a few hundreds, which I wish to
invest safely, and I want your advice."

"When you say safely, I presume you mean to include profitably."

"Ay, profitably and safely."

"I am just fitting out a ship for Canton; what do you think of investing
the sum in articles of foreign merchandise?"

"I confess," said Howard, "I have great distrust of winds and waves."

"Suppose you invest it in Eastern lands? many have made fortunes in this
way."

"I am not seeking to make a fortune," said Howard, quietly;--"my object
is to secure something for my family in case of accident, and I only want
to invest what I do not require for present use in a manner that will
bring compound interest. I hope not to be obliged to take up the
interest for many years, but to be adding it to the principal, with such
sums as I