The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

CHAPTElt VI.
SELF-RELIANCE
^ SWISS hunter, who suf.pon
ed his family, for many years,
by hunting the wild chamois in
the mountains around his humble
iy chalet, was induced to give up his
abode, and remove to a cottage,
which stood beside a pass in the lower
Alps. Here, he was often required to
act as guide or host to lost or weary
travellers.
For these services he frequently
received liberal rewards ; and, for the first
time in his life, became the possessor of
strange pleasure in hoarding it up, and in listening to
its chink, as he counted it unnumbered times.
It happened, on a certain day, while he was engold.
It fascinated him, and he learned to taste a