A few days after the sham duel, Harrison determined to play a trick on another emigrant, a shrewd, tolerably well-informed young man, who had evinced a great deal of self-complacency and immodest pertinacity.

He told the pertinacious emigrant, who inquired for a place, that he had not, himself, anything that could engage his attention, but that he had a friend (alluding to me) who was now in town, who was extensively engaged in milling and merchandizing on the Little Miami, and was in want of a competent, responsible clerk.

He added that, if he would call in the evening, his friend would be in, and he would introduce him.
Meantime, I was informed of the character I was to play in rebuking assumption.

The man came, punctual to his appointment, in the evening, and was formally introduced.

I stated the duties and the peculiar requisites and responsibilities of the trust.