[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER III 9/9
Don't it cost money, that's all? Sumtotalize it then, and see what it all comes to. It would make your hair stand on eend, I know.
If it was all put into figure, it would reach clean across the river; and if it was all put into dollars, it would make a solid tire of silver, and hoop the world round and round, like a wheel. "If you want to give a man an idea of England, Squire, tell him of Ascot; and if you want to cram him, get old Multiplication-table Joe H-- to cast it up; for he'll make it come to twice as much as it railly is, and that will choke him.
Yes, Squire, _stick to Ascot_.".
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