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Put Yourself in His Place

CHAPTER V
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But to obtain above the statement price is to benefit trade.

The high price, that stands alone to-day, will not stand alone forever.

It gets quoted in bargains, and draws prices up to it.
That has been proved a thousand times.
"2 .-- It is not under any master's skin to pay a man more than he is worth.

It I get a high price, it is because I make a first-rate article.
If a man has got superior knowledge, he is not going to give it away to gratify envious ignorance." To this, in due course, he received from Jobson the following: "DEAR SIR,--I advised you according to my judgment and experience: but, doubtless, you are the best judge of your own affairs." And that closed the correspondence with the Secretaries.
The gentle Jobson and the polite Parkin had retired from the correspondence with their air of mild regret and placid resignation just three days, when young Little found a dirty crumpled letter on his anvil, written in pencil.

It ran thus: "Turn up or youl wish you had droped it.


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