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interest in seeing industrious, honest, prudent men get along well. 

 What does he ask for the shop? " 



" Two hundred dollars." 



" How much have you? " 



"About a hundred." 



" How much charged? " 



"About a hundred more; but it is not safe to get in debt on the 

 strength of that." 



•' I know it; but you go and bargain for the shop and come to 

 me for the hundred." 



" My old fellow-apprentice will want to buy a shop," said 

 Watson with a knowing look. 



" What does he want a shop for? To get another journeyman 

 to fiddle in? I shall expect to see you before long. Good day." 



From this time Allen's visits became less frequent at Graham's 

 and ere long ceased altogether. * 



In a week or two Graham was again at Watson's shop. " Why 

 hav'nt you been along ? " said he. 



" I concluded it was'nt best to buy till I could pay down: but 

 I'm much obliged to you for your kind offer." 



" What is the reason it is'nt best, when you are paying twen- 

 ty-five dollars rent for what you can buy for two hundred? " 



" It is only waiting a little longer and working a little harder, 

 and I can bring it about myself. Since you were here I have 

 had some paid in, and I have several good jobs under way. By 

 working nights through the summer, in the fall I can buy it and 

 pay for it, and owe nobody. Just as much obliged to you though 

 as if I had the money from you." 



" You've got the real republican grit in you. You would do 

 for governor, and I'll vote for you yet: you can't hinder me from 

 doing that." 



In the fall the shop was bought and paid for, and from time to 

 time small parcels of lumber were collected and neatly piled up 

 on the premises. In a year's time, a small framed house went 

 up; and while it was being finished, a little black-eyed girl who 

 had worked for Mrs. Washburn for several years, might be seen 



