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If you fellers will let me own twenty cents' worth of ther house I'll be all right, for then I'll have a place to live, an' I kin get back in ther boot-blackin' bizness agin." It would be crowding rather close to put four into the hogshead; but matters could be arranged by turning their store-room into a bedchamber, and Dickey's request was granted without the slightest show of hesitation.
"We could call it 'Professor Fosdick and Hunter's Mott Street Seminary. Boot-blackin' taught by Professor Hunter." The evening was so far advanced that Dick decided to postpone copying his letter till the next evening.
"Yes," said Dick, "I like it better on the whole; but then there's some advantages about boot-blackin'." "Indeed!" said Roswell, superciliously. "As I was never in the business, I can't of course decide." "Then I was in business for myself, you see, and was my own master. Now I have to work for another man." "You don't seem to be working very hard now," said Roswell, enviously.
"It's the biggest store on Broadway.* If I ever retire from boot-blackin', and go into mercantile pursuits, I may buy him out, or build another store that'll take the shine off this one." * Mr. Stewart's Tenth Street store was not open at the time Dick spoke. "Were you ever in the store?" asked Frank. "No," said Dick; "but I'm intimate with one of Stewart's partners.
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