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"Well, I've been thinking for some time that the way to get the other farmers around here interested in concrete work and get them buying sand from your pit, Bob, would be to have them send some of their boys over here to learn how cement work is done, for while anyone can easily learn how to use cement, still it must be understood to use it correctly.
"I ain't much on such," he said lightly and then looked intently at Ebenezer. "Jenny's been buying quite a lot here for her Christmas," he said. Ebenezer was blank. "Jenny?" he said. "Jenny Wing? I heard she was here. I ain't seen her. Is she bound to keep Christmas anyhow?" "Just white goods, it was," said Abel, briefly. Ebenezer frowned his lack of understanding.
The nations and business men of the world will have to face after the war a new condition which we may call socialized buying and socialized selling.
Periods of falling prices are not encouraging to producers, and they put too much advantage into the hands of the rentier the man who lives on fixed interest; on the other hand, they are generally believed to be in favour of the working classes, since reductions in wages generally lag behind the fall in prices, which means increased buying power to the wage-earner.
"I was just doing it when the train stopped. Wait a minute, Tommy, and I'll ask my father." Back once more the chubby little "fireman" went to where his father sat, and again he asked the question about the money, and about buying a ship to search for the lost sea captain. "What's all this?" asked Mr. Bobbsey in surprise. "Who is this Tommy Todd?"
And the rain continued to drip...drip...drip, monotonously. The announcement that the railway was to be built in the spring caused a great stir in the village. The strangers who went about buying land from the peasants were the sole topic of conversation at the spinning-wheels on winter evenings.
At first the boys bought their tops at the stores, but after a while the boy whose father had the turning-shop on the Hydraulic learned to turn their tops, and did it for nothing, which was cheaper than buying tops, especially as he furnished the wood, too, and you only had to get the metal peg yourself.
When the matter of buying a plane was up for discussion more than a year before, after the boys and Jack Hampton, their absent chum, as well as Mr. Temple himself an enthusiast about flying all had become licensed pilots by taking a course at the Mineola flying fields, the question had been whether to buy a hydroplane.
Well, I wrote my letter to Pierson after Tom and I had finished our lessons for our tutor. I told Tom I had written it, and then the next thing was how to get it stamped and taken to the post. "I wish I had thought of buying a stamp when we were out this morning," I said. I have forgotten to tell you that in the morning, early, we had been out a short walk with Sarah.
Remember what poor Richard says Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. And again At a great pennyworth pause awhile. He means that the cheapness is apparent only, and not real; or the bargain, by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good; for in another place he says Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.
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