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The Light in the Clearing

CHAPTER II
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What do ye suppose he spent for his dinner ?" "Three cents," said my uncle.
"Guess again--it was a cent and a half.

He came in here and asked how much were the doughnuts.

I told him they were a cent a piece.

He offered me three cents for four of them--said it was all the change he had.

He and his boy are eating them with some apples that they had in their pockets." I remember how my uncle and the man laughed as the latter said: "His wealth costs too much altogether.


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