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He had not been able to resist buying the clock for Draxy. He dared not tell her what he had paid for it. "She'd never let me give her a cent's worth, I know that well enough. It would be just like her to make me take it back," thought he.
The first customer was a little girl, and both Richard and Frank desired the honor of waiting upon her. But the girl wanted a cent's worth of red chalk, and as neither could find the article in demand the would-be purchaser was turned over to Phil, who in turn handed the cash to Frank, while Richard gravely made the entry upon the daily sales-book.
Frequently all these visitors would leave as suddenly as they came, and would only give their thanks, not even being of a single cent's immediate value to the place for the outlay of time taken from productive labor. Sometimes a growl would be heard because a trifle was taken for the expense of meals, or about the absence of feathers in the beds, by some visitor who intruded himself uninvited.
He was asleep when I came away this morning." "So he is here, then?" "Louise, you're joking. Didn't Red talk to you?" "No." "And you know all about it already?" He looked at her curiously for a moment. "Did you know that I said I was going to leave the Moonstone?" "Why?" "For the same reason that I can't now you. Red and Billy Winthrop and I don't own a cent's worth of the claim now.
Well, it will go on until that man is a beggar; until he has to borrow a dime for his breakfast, and slump out of his lunch with a cent's worth of rat poison or a bullet in his head!
The man stolen might be diseased or totally past labor, consequently instead of being profitable to the thief, he would be a tax upon him, yet death was still the penalty, though not a cent's worth of property-value was taken. The penalty for stealing property was a mere property-penalty. However large the theft, the payment of double wiped out the score.
The Washington operator asked of Baltimore, "What time is it?" which in the code required but one character. The reply came, "One o'clock," another single character. Thus but two characters had been used, or one-half cent's worth of telegraphy. The visitor expressed himself as satisfied, and waived the "change." This penny was the line's first earnings.
What's ten per cent, on twenty dollars?" Tim Hagan stared at the shimmering heat-waves of the desert and tried to solve the problem. "What's one-tenth of twenty million?" Young Dick demanded irritably. "Huh! two million, of course." "Well, five per cent's half of ten per cent. What does twenty million earn at five per cent, for one year?" Tim hesitated. "Half of it, half of two million!"
By the way, did you hear that his farm is took? By a Britisher gentleman I'm told an officer, too; I guess he'll want to back out o' the bush faster than he got in, ef he's like the most of 'em. I know'd some o' the sort, an' they never did a cent's worth o' good, hardly, though they was above bein' spoke to.
"Then you can go to blazes, and you'll never see a cent's worth of fur from the stuff I got last year." "I don't expect to," was the reply; "I've learned what your word's worth." And the stranger slouched away. "Who vas he?" asked Hendrik. "I only know that his name is Jack Hoag; he's a little bit of a trapper and a big bit of a bum; stuck me last year.
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