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Average Jones ran rapidly over the eight envelopes. With one exception, each bore the imprint of some firm name made familiar by extensive advertising. All the envelopes were of softish Manila paper varying in grade and hue, under one-cent stamps. "Which is the first of the series?" he asked. "It isn't among those. Unfortunately it was lost, by a stupid servant's mistake, pin and all." "Pin?"
"Yes. Where I cut open the envelope " "Wait a moment. You say you cut it open. All these, being one-cent postage, must have come unsealed. Was the first different?" "Yes. It had a two-cent stamp. It was a circular announcement of the Swift-Reading Encyclopedia, in a sealed envelope. There was a pin bent over the fold of the letter so you couldn't help but notice it.
"I'll take three bunches." His eyes rested admiringly on the big purple heads as he held out a dollar bill. "Ain't you got any real money?" asked the boy, not offering to touch the currency. Again the man's hand went to his pocket and drew out some small change, from which he selected a quarter, a dime and three one-cent pieces.
Well, it takes two days for that notice to reach me; and of course I let it lie round a couple of days, thinking it's probably an advertisement; and then two days for my one-cent stamp to go back to this parsimonious postmaster; and two days for the letter to get here; making about eight days, during which things had happened that I should of known about.
It was not until two mornings later that Hugh tossed her across the breakfast table a pink envelope with a wide flap and rough edges. Its sender had taken advantage of the law that permits one-cent stamps for local use. "Who's your friend, Honora?" he asked. She tried to look calmly at the envelope that contained her fate.
It was not until two mornings later that Hugh tossed her across the breakfast table a pink envelope with a wide flap and rough edges. Its sender had taken advantage of the law that permits one-cent stamps for local use. "Who's your friend, Honora?" he asked. She tried to look calmly at the envelope that contained her fate.
No; if the hen will politely present me with one hundred eggs a year, I will thank her and ask no more. Some one will say: "How can you make hens pay if they don't lay more than eight dozen eggs a year? Eggs sometimes sell as low as twelve cents per dozen." Four Oaks hens never have laid one-cent eggs, and never will. They would quit work if such a price were suggested.
He managed to get a position in a printing office there, and two years later, at the age of twenty-two, he and a partner established the first one-cent daily newspaper in the United States. It was ahead of the times, however, and had to be abandoned after a few months.
I will let you take my book to make yours by, if you will let me have it back to-night. I bought a little book for Mary and me that was only three cents, and cut it in two; and Lizzie hasn't got hers yet, so you can buy one together and go halves." "I'd like to know who will pay the two cents," laughed Betty. "I will, and then you can give me half a one-cent lead pencil to make change.
"I'm talking about the lunacy of a one-cent journalist who's willing to risk even his own funds for the sake of an afternoon beat! I tell you, Pyott, the whole story's got to be stopped!" "What story?" "The Advance story! I've got your man Trotter here now. He " "Ah, Trotter!" exclaimed Pyott. He was at last beginning to see light.
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