rightly seen after, one in which a man is sure to make money."

"You were still doing a fair business with your mill?"

"Oh, yes. Whatever I do, I do right. Last year, I put by a
thousand dollars above all expenses, which is not bad, I can
assure you, for a mere grist mill. If the present owner comes out
even, he'll do well!"

"How is that?"

"Oh, he's no miller. Give him the best wheat that is grown, and
he'll ruin it in grinding. He takes the life out of every grain. I
don't believe he'll keep half the custom that I transferred with
the mill."

"A thousand dollars, clear profit, in so useful a business, ought
to have satisfied you," said I.

"There you and I differ," answered the landlord. "Every man
desires to make as much money as possible, and with the least
labor. I hope to make two or three thousand dollars a year, over
and above all expenses, at tavern-keeping. My bar alone ought to
yield me that sum. A man with a wife and children very naturally
tries to do as well by them as possible."

"Very true; but," I ventured to suggest, "will this be doing as
well by them as if you had kept on at the mill?"

"Two or three thousand dollars a year against one thousand! Where