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Updated: May 25, 2025
We had ventured into its borders alone, had chatted with a cobbler, inspected the complete workshop on the sidewalk, priced the work, "real, artistic, high-priced jobs were worth thirty to forty kopeks," had promised to fetch our boots to be repaired with tacks and whipcord, "when they needed it," and had received an unblushing appeal for a bottle of vodka in which to drink the health of ourselves and the cobblers.
Ah Fong's subsequent story of what happened was simple, and briefly to the effect that Quong, having entered his shop and priced various litchi nuts and pickled starfruit, had purchased some powdered lizard and, with the package in his left hand, had opened the door to go out.
He was, however, again placed on board ship, and arrived in New York after a fourteen-days' passage, naturally much reduced in flesh and spirits. From New York he was sent to Philadelphia by post that is, ridden by the post-rider. The horse cost £32, and his freight cost fifty shillings. He was said to be "no beauty though so high priced, save in his legs."
When a man on the road can get a merchant to say he will look at his goods, he knows that the merchant wishes to buy from somebody in his line and he feels that he has ninety-nine chances in a hundred of selling him. "That afternoon Old Benzine came over and he was mean. He tore up the stuff and said it was too high priced, and everything of that kind.
The allotment of these variously priced seats at the banquet was a heavy task, and it was undertaken by Mathers. Somehow or other he was delayed in his work until two days before the dinner was to take place, and then he was seized with sudden illness. I was called in to take his place, and discovered an alarming state of affairs. It was Wednesday night, Mr.
Fra Bartolommeo priced it at 200 ducats, and the convent being the gainer by his works, took his own valuation.
Honesty. Judgment or common sense and Good health. Plenty of men who possess only three of the above qualities can be hired at any time for laborers' wages. Add four of these qualities together and you get a higher priced man. The man combining five of these qualities begins to be hard to find, and those with six, seven, and eight are almost impossible to get.
The tube costs $8.00 and the porcelain base is $1.00 extra. It is shown at E. The Storage Battery and Rheostat. This must be a 5-cell battery so that it will develop 10 volts. A storage battery of any capacity can be used but the lowest priced one costs about $22.00. The rheostat for regulating the battery current is the same as that used in the preceding experimental transmitter.
"I will pay whatever you choose to set on the brute." It would be hard to say which was less agreeable to the chief-to have his stag called a brute, or be offered blood-money for him. "Stag Ruadh priced like a bullock!" he said, with a slow smile, full of sadness; " the pride of every child in the strath! Not a gentleman in the county would have shot Clanruadh's deer!"
The acme of extravagance was not arrived at, however, until the poor miner came to purchase auxiliaries to his rocker. This "iron" is simply a plate of thin sheet-iron, measuring 18 inches by 20 inches, perforated with round holes to let the loose dirt pass through. I priced one of them, out of curiosity, at a carpenter's shop in San Francisco this morning 2 and a half dollars.
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