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Having once made up my mind, however, nothing could change it. While I was selling my horses and other effects, preparatory to leaving the fort, one of my brother scouts, Texas Jack, said that he would like to accompany me.
She was working more or less directly with Fenger now, with an eye on every one of the departments that had to do with women's clothing, from shoes to hats. Not that she did any actual buying, or selling in these departments. She still confined her actual selecting of goods to the infants' wear section, but she occupied, unofficially, the position of assistant to the General Merchandise Manager.
On the street a boy was selling extras of the Plato Weekly Times, with the heading: PRESIDENT CRUSHES STUDENT REBELLION Plato Demonstration for Anarchist Handled Without Gloves
In the forties the government of Canada was selling its highways to toll-companies, and was not likely to embark on railway construction. In several later charters provision was made for state purchase, after a term of years, at cost plus twenty or twenty-five per cent. Control of private companies in the interest of the shipper was sometimes sought.
I never knew why you went in for politics, or at least why, if you went in at all, you didn't try for something worth while. You could have gone to the legislature just as easily. But for a Blake to be sheriff! Well, it knocked us all silly when we heard of it, and I don't understand it yet. We pictured you locking up drunken men, serving subpoenas, and selling widows' farms over their heads."
Some made a lot of money, no doubt of that, especially those families with plenty of daughters; but now it is different and they are not going as once they did ... So you are selling the farm?" "Yes, there has been some talk with three Frenchmen who came to Mistook last month. I expect we shall make a bargain." "And are there many Canadians where you are living? Do the people speak French?"
"If I had two projects in mind one for irrigation and one for power, I would not, of course, unless I happened to be a public service corporation engaged in producing and selling electric power, consider for a moment wasting my time monkeying with the hydro-electric buzz-saw.
It is at this minute saleable in the market at ten times the value at which it is rated. If you choose to keep it idle in the expectation of still further unearned increment, then at least you shall be taxed at the true selling value in the meanwhile."
He went to work as a commercial traveler selling cotton prints. That English custom of the "commercial dinner," where all the "bagmen" that happened to be in the hotel dine at a common table, as a family, and take up a penny collection for the waiter, had its rise in the brain of Cobden.
I'm always putting my foot in it." "Very well," said Sheila. "I think you said you wanted to speak to me of my future?" "Yes. I spoke to your father about selling the ranch. He refused point-blank. What can we do about it?" She shrugged her shoulders. "'We? If he told you he won't sell, he won't. I didn't know you had spoken to him." "Couldn't you persuade him?" "I wouldn't try.
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