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Put Yourself in His Place

CHAPTER XXIX
12/77

If you are in trouble, the best way is to let your tongue put it off your heart." "I'm sure you are very kind," said Henry, "but really my trouble is one of those out-of-the-way things that do not interest people.

However, the long and the short is, I'm an inventor.

I have invented several things, and kept them dark, and they have paid me.

I live at Hillsborough.
But now I have found a way of grinding long saws and circular saws by machinery, at a saving of five hundred per cent labor.

That saving of labor represents an enormous profit--a large fortune; so I have patented the invention at my own expense.


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