I think you should buy it at once, in case they are all sold out before Christmas.
VIII.
_December 5th._ MY DEAR UNCLE:--I hope you haven't bought the book yet, as Dickson Secundus has found out that there is a shop in the Strand where all the books are sold cheap.

You get threepence off every shilling, so you would get a ten-and-six book for 7s.

10-1/2d.

That will let you get me a cheapish one next year, after all.

I inclose the address.
IX.
_December 7th_.
DEAR UNCLE:--Dickson Secundus was looking to-day at "The Formation of Character," which you gave me last year, and he has found out that it was bought in the shop in the Strand that I wrote you about, so you got it for 4s.6d.We have been looking up the books I got from you at other Christmases, and they all have the stamp on them which shows they were bought at that shop.