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These figures cover only the money received 

 and expended. They take no account of the 

 14000 per annum which we agreed to pay the 

 farm for keeping us, so long as we made it pay 

 interest to us. Four times $4000 are 116,000 

 which, added to 118,936, makes almost 135,000 

 to charge off from the $106,000 of original 

 investment. 



Polly was wrong when she spoke of it as a per- 

 manent investment. Four years more of seven-dol- 

 lar pork and thrifty apple growth will make this 

 balance of $71,000 look very small. The interest 

 is growing rapidly less, and it will be but a short 

 time before the whole amount will be taken off 

 the expense account. When this is done, the 

 yearly balance will be increased by the addition 

 of $5000, and we may be able to make the farm 

 pay for weddings, as Polly suggested. 



