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Updated: May 13, 2025

"I thought we might as well have an understandin' about it," said the squire. "So you won't hire out the boy?" "No, I cannot, under the circumstances. If I did I should consider his services worth more than two dollars a month." "I might give him two'n a half," said the squire, fancying it was merely a question of money. "How much do you pay Abner Kimball?"

Horatio Alger - Bound to Rise

Then the gasoline tank needed filling and the battery had to be overhauled. "Are you sure you can make it?" queried Sam anxiously. "It's important, I tell you. Mighty important." The skipper snorted in disgust. "Make it?" he repeated. "If the Lady May can't make fourteen mile in two hours let alone two'n a ha'f then I don't know her. She's one of them boats you read about, she is."

Joseph Crosby Lincoln - The Depot Master