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Abijah’s Bubble

March 8, 2019 By F. Hopkinson Smith in Old Stories Tags: family, investing, F. Hopkinson Smith

Ezekiel Todd, her dry, tight-fisted, lean father, had named her, bawling it out so loud that the more suitable, certainly the more euphonious, “Evangeline,” proffered in a timid whisper by her faded and somewhat romantic mother, was completely smothered. “I baptize thee, Evang—” began the minister, when Ezekiel’s voice rose clear: “Abijah, I tell ye, Parson—A-b-i-j-a-h—Abijah!” And Abijah it was. The women were furious. The whole town feels sorry that Abbie got stuck with that name but it’s never much mattered to her. What does matter to her is that she’s stuck being small town Abbie. F. Hopkinson Smith was [Read More]

The Tipster

January 8, 2019 By Edwin Lefevre in Old Stories Tags: wall street, investing, scams, public domain stories, new york, Edwin Lefevre

I Glmartin was still laughing professionally at the prospective buyer’s funny story when the telephone on his desk buzzed. He said: “Excuse me for a minute, old man,” to the customer—Hopkins, the Connecticut manufacturer. “Hello; who is this?” he spoke into the transmitter. “Oh, how are you?—Yes—I was out—Is that so?—Too bad—Too bad—Yes; just my luck to be out. I might have known it!—Do you think so?—Well, then, sell the 200 Occidental common—You know best—What about Trolley?—Hold on?—All right; just as you say—I hope so—I don’t like to lose, and—Ha! ha!—I guess so—Good-by.” In Edwin Lefevre’s short story of Wall [Read More]