They also gave him the unwanted clothes of a foreign prince. When he wants to pay, and the owner of the store sees his banknote, he tells him that he does not have to pay, and that they were going to make him some very nice clothes. Part 3Īfter not being allowed to return the banknote, the American businessman goes to the nearest clothing store to buy some clothes. After buying food, he wanted to return the money, but the butler did not let him. The man went to the nearest shop and bought food. They had decided to test their theory on this man, so they gave him a one million pound banknote and left the country. One of the brothers believed that if a poor person was given 1 million pounds, he would run away with the money, but the other man thought that he would give it back. They had gotten into an argument that was about poor people. The butler of a rich family calls him into a house where two rich brothers lived. He is so poor that he cannot afford to buy food, so when he sees a child dropping a pear he tries to take and eat it, but it was filthy. Being poor, and with only one dollar to his name, the man buys cheap lodgings for 1 day. A few sailors on a ship save him and take him to England. I could hardly keep my wits together in the presence of that food, but as I was not asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as best I could.An American businessman was sailing a small boat on the Pacific next to San Francisco when a giant storm pushes him out to sea. They had just finished their breakfast, and the sight of the remains of it almost overpowered me.
They sent away the servant, and made me sit down. I was admitted by a gorgeous flunkey, and shown into a sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen were sitting. I was just getting desperate enough to brave all the shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me was raised, and a gentleman spoke out of it, saying: This same thing kept happening and happening, and I couldn't get the pear. But every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked indifferent, and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all. My mouth watered for it, my stomach craved it, my whole being begged for it. I stopped, of course, and fastened my desiring eye on that muddy treasure. During the next twenty-four I went without food and shelter.Ībout ten o'clock on the following morning, seedy and hungry, I was dragging myself along Portland Place, when a child that was passing, towed by a nurse-maid, tossed a luscious big pear - minus one bite - into the gutter. This money fed and sheltered me twenty-four hours. When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket. It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor. Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I was picked up by a small brig which was bound for London. One day I ventured too far, and was carried out to sea. My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay.
I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect. When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker's clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic.
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