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The Boy Trapper

CHAPTER II
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"I'll pay it, and be glad to do so.

We may want groceries some time, you know, when we have no money to pay for them." "That's the way to talk.

Pay up promptly and your credit will always be good." "All I ask of you," continued David, "is that you will wait about a month longer, until----" "Can't do it; can't possibly do it," exclaimed Silas, shaking his head and waving his hands up and down in the air.

"Must have money to-day.

My creditors are pushing me, and I must push everybody whose name is on my books." "But my name isn't on your books." "Your father's is, and if you have any honor about you, you will see the debt paid." "That's what I mean to do, but I can't pay it now." "Can't wait a single day," said Silas.


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