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As an instance, I +remember an old man who carries on a little trade of gingerbread and apples at +the depot of one of our railroads. While awaiting the departure of the cars, my +observation, flitting to and fro among the livelier characteristics of the +scene, has often settled insensibly upon this almost hueless object. Thus, +unconsciously to myself and unsuspected by him, I have studied the old +apple-dealer until he has become a naturalized citizen of my inner world. How +little would he imagine—poor, neglected, friendless, unappreciated, and +with little that demands appreciation—that the mental eye of an utter +stranger has so often reverted to his figure! Many a noble form, many a +beautiful face, has flitted before me and vanished like a shadow. It is a +strange witchcraft whereby this faded and featureless old apple-dealer has +gained a settlement in my memory. +</p> + +<p> +He is a small man, with gray hair and gray stubble beard, and is invariably +clad in a shabby surtout of snuff-color, closely buttoned, and half concealing +a pair of gray pantaloons; the whole dress, though clean and entire, being +evidently flimsy with much wear. His face, thin, withered, furrowed, and with +features which even age has failed to render impressive, has a frost-bitten +aspect. It is a moral frost which no physical warmth or comfortableness could +counteract. The summer sunshine may fling its white heat upon him or the good +fire of the depot room may slake him the focus of its blaze on a winter’s day; +but all in vain; for still the old roan looks as if he were in a frosty +atmosphere, with scarcely warmth enough to keep life in the region about his +heart. It is a patient, long-suffering, quiet, hopeless, shivering aspect. He +is not desperate,—that, though its etymology implies no more, would be +too positive an expression,—but merely devoid of hope. As all his past +life, probably, offers no spots of brightness to his memory, so he takes his +present poverty and discomfort as entirely a matter of course! he thinks it the +definition of existence, so far as himself is concerned, to be poor, cold, and +uncomfortable. It may be added, that time has not thrown dignity as a mantle +over the old man’s figure: there is nothing venerable about him: you pity him +without a scruple. +</p> + +<p> +He sits on a bench in the depot room; and before him, on the floor, are +deposited two baskets of a capacity to contain his whole stock in trade. Across +from one basket to the other extends a board, on which is displayed a plate of +cakes and gingerbread, some russet and red-cheeked apples, and a box containing +variegated sticks of candy, together with that delectable condiment known by +children as Gibraltar rock, neatly done up in white paper. There is likewise a +half-peck measure of cracked walnuts and two or three tin half-pints or gills +filled with the nut-kernels, ready for purchasers. +</p> + +<p> +Such are the small commodities with which our old friend comes daily before the +world, ministering to its petty needs and little freaks of appetite, and +seeking thence the solid subsistence—so far as he may subsist of his +life. +</p> + +<p> +A slight observer would speak of the old man’s quietude; but, on closer +scrutiny, you discover that there is a continual unrest within him, which +somewhat resembles the fluttering action of the nerves in a corpse from which +life has recently departed. Though he never exhibits any violent action, and, +indeed, might appear to be sitting quite still, yet you perceive, when his +minuter peculiarities begin to be detected, that he is always making some +little movement or other. He looks anxiously at his plate of cakes or pyramid +of apples and slightly alters their arrangement, with an evident idea that a +great deal depends on their being disposed exactly thus and so. Then for a +moment he gazes out of the window; then he shivers quietly and folds his arms +across his breast, as if to draw himself closer within himself, and thus keep a +flicker of warmth in his lonesome heart. Now he turns again to his merchandise +of cakes, apples, and candy, and discovers that this cake or that apple, or +yonder stick of red and white candy, has somehow got out of its proper +position. And is there not a walnut-kernel too many or too few in one of those +small tin measures? Again the whole arrangement appears to be settled to his +mind; but, in the course of a minute or two, there will assuredly be something +to set right. At times, by an indescribable shadow upon his features, too +quiet, however, to be noticed until you are familiar with his ordinary aspect, +the expression of frostbitten, patient despondency becomes very touching. It +seems as if just at that instant the suspicion occurred to him that, in his +chill decline of life, earning scanty bread by selling cakes, apples, and +candy, he is a very miserable old fellow. +</p> + +<p> +But, if he thinks so, it is a mistake. He can never suffer the extreme of +misery, because the tone of his whole being is too much subdued for him to feel +anything acutely. +</p> + +<p> +Occasionally one of the passengers, to while away a tedious interval, +approaches the old man, inspects the articles upon his board, and even peeps +curiously into the two baskets. Another, striding to and fro along the room, +throws a look at the apples and gingerbread at every turn. A third, it may be +of a more sensitive and delicate texture of being, glances shyly thitherward, +cautious not to excite expectations of a purchaser while yet undetermined +whether to buy. But there appears to be no need of such a scrupulous regard to +our old friend’s feelings. True, he is conscious of the remote possibility to +sell a cake or an apple; but innumerable disappointments have rendered him so +far a philosopher, that, even if the purchased article should be returned, he +will consider it altogether in the ordinary train of events. He speaks to none, +and makes no sign of offering his wares to the public: not that he is deterred +by pride, but by the certain conviction that such demonstrations would not +increase his custom. Besides, this activity in business would require an energy +that never could have been a characteristic of his almost passive disposition +even in youth. Whenever an actual customer customer appears the old man looks +up with a patient eye: if the price and the article are approved, he is ready +to make change; otherwise his eyelids droop again sadly enough, but with no +heavier despondency than before. He shivers, perhaps folds his lean arms around +his lean body, and resumes the life-long, frozen patience in which consists his +strength. +</p> + +<p> +Once in a while a school-boy comes hastily up, places cent or two upon the +board, and takes up a cake, or stick of candy, or a measure of walnuts, or an +apple as red-checked as himself. There are no words as to price, that being as +well known to the buyer as to the seller. The old apple-dealer never speaks an +unnecessary word not that he is sullen and morose; but there is none of the +cheeriness and briskness in him that stirs up people to talk. +</p> + +<p> +Not seldom he is greeted by some old neighbor, a man well to do in the world, +who makes a civil, patronizing observation about the weather; and then, by way +of performing a charitable deed, begins to chaffer for an apple. Our friend +presumes not on any past acquaintance; he makes the briefest possible response +to all general remarks, and shrinks quietly into himself again. After every +diminution of his stock he takes care to produce from the basket another cake, +another stick of candy, another apple, or another measure of walnuts, to supply +the place of the article sold. Two or three attempts—or, perchance, half +a dozen—are requisite before the board can be rearranged to his +satisfaction. If he have received a silver coin, he waits till the purchaser is +out of sight, then examines it closely, and tries to bend it with his finger +and thumb: finally he puts it into his waistcoat-pocket with seemingly a gentle +sigh. This sigh, so faint as to be hardly perceptible, and not expressive of +any definite emotion, is the accompaniment and conclusion of all his actions. +It is the symbol of the chillness and torpid melancholy of his old age, which +only make themselves felt sensibly when his repose is slightly disturbed. +</p> + +<p> +Our man of gingerbread and apples is not a specimen of the “needy man who has +seen better days.” Doubtless there have been better and brighter days in the +far-off time of his youth; but none with so much sunshine of prosperity in them +that the chill, the depression, the narrowness of means, in his declining +years, can have come upon him by surprise. His life has all been of a piece. +His subdued and nerveless boyhood prefigured his abortive prime, which likewise +contained within itself the prophecy and image of his lean and torpid age. He +was perhaps a mechanic, who never came to be a master in his craft, or a petty +tradesman, rubbing onward between passably to do and poverty. Possibly he may +look back to some brilliant epoch of his career when there were a hundred or +two of dollars to his credit in the Savings Bank. Such must have been the +extent of his better fortune,—his little measure of this world’s +triumphs,—all that he has known of success. A meek, downcast, humble, +uncomplaining creature, he probably has never felt himself entitled to more +than so much of the gifts of Providence. Is it not still something that he has +never held out his hand for charity, nor has yet been driven to that sad home +and household of Earth’s forlorn and broken-spirited children, the almshouse? +He cherishes no quarrel, therefore, with his destiny, nor with the Author of +it. All is as it should be. +</p> + +<p> +If, indeed, he have been bereaved of a son, a bold, energetic, vigorous young +man, on whom the father’s feeble nature leaned as on a staff of strength, in +that case he may have felt a bitterness that could not otherwise have been +generated in his heart. But methinks the joy of possessing such a son and the +agony of losing him would have developed the old man’s moral and intellectual +nature to a much greater degree than we now find it. Intense grief appears to +be as much out of keeping with his life as fervid happiness. +</p> + +<p> +To confess the truth, it is not the easiest matter in the world to define and +individualize a character like this which we are now handling. The portrait +must be so generally negative that the most delicate pencil is likely to spoil +it by introducing some too positive tint. Every touch must be kept down, or +else you destroy the subdued tone which is absolutely essential to the whole +effect. Perhaps more may be done by contrast than by direct description. For +this purpose I make use of another cake and candy merchant, who, likewise +infests the railroad depot. This latter worthy is a very smart and well-dressed +boy of ten years old or thereabouts, who skips briskly hither and thither, +addressing the passengers in a pert voice, yet with somewhat of good breeding +in his tone and pronunciation. Now he has caught my eye, and skips across the +room with a pretty pertness, which I should like to correct with a box on the +ear. “Any cake, sir? any candy?” +</p> + +<p> +No, none for me, my lad. I did but glance at your brisk figure in order to +catch a reflected light and throw it upon your old rival yonder. +</p> + +<p> +Again, in order to invest my conception of the old man with a more decided +sense of reality, I look at him in the very moment of intensest bustle, on the +arrival of the cars. The shriek of the engine as it rushes into the car-house +is the utterance of the steam fiend, whom man has subdued by magic spells and +compels to serve as a beast of burden. He has skimmed rivers in his headlong +rush, dashed through forests, plunged into the hearts of mountains, and glanced +from the city to the desert-place, and again to a far-off city, with a meteoric +progress, seen and out of sight, while his reverberating roar still fills the +ear. The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum +which they have caught from their mode of conveyance. It seems as if the whole +world, both morally and physically, were detached from its old standfasts and +set in rapid motion. And, in the midst of this terrible activity, there sits +the old man of gingerbread, so subdued, so hopeless, so without a stake in +life, and yet not positively miserable,—there he sits, the forlorn old +creature, one chill and sombre day after another, gathering scanty coppers for +his cakes, apples, and candy,—there sits the old apple-dealer, in his +threadbare suit of snuff-color and gray and his grizzly stubble heard. See! he +folds his lean arms around his lean figure with that quiet sigh and that +scarcely perceptible shiver which are the tokens of his inward state. I have +him now. He and the steam fiend are each other’s antipodes; the latter is the +type of all that go ahead, and the old man the representative of that +melancholy class who by some sad witchcraft are doomed never to share in the +world’s exulting progress. Thus the contrast between mankind and this desolate +brother becomes picturesque, and even sublime. +</p> + +<p> +And now farewell, old friend! Little do you suspect that a student of human +life has made your character the theme of more than one solitary and thoughtful +hour. Many would say that you have hardly individuality enough to be the object +of your own self-love. How, then, can a stranger’s eye detect anything in your +mind and heart to study and to wonder at? Yet, could I read but a tithe of what +is written there, it would be a volume of deeper and more comprehensive import +than all that the wisest mortals have given to the world; for the soundless +depths of the human soul and of eternity have an opening through your breast. +God be praised, were it only for your sake, that the present shapes of human +existence are not cast in iron nor hewn in everlasting adamant, but moulded of +the vapors that vanish away while the essence flits upward to the infinite. +There is a spiritual essence in this gray and lean old shape that shall flit +upward too. Yes; doubtless there is a region where the life-long shiver will +pass away from his being, and that quiet sigh, which it has taken him so many +years to breathe, will be brought to a close for good and all. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLD APPLE DEALER ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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