THE COUNTRY BOY 



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come later on. If you got a certain number 

 of these chances it reduced the price half. 

 As we paid in milk it meant for the big set of 

 lessons I would only bring one-half as much as 

 I should have had to do had we bought them. 



Father had sold 

 out the store on ac- 

 count of my clerk- 

 ing and was survey- 

 ing a good deal, and 

 working with deeds 

 and legal papers 

 some. He asked 

 me how I got on at 

 the music and I 

 simply smiled and 

 showed him the 

 tickets, "Reward of 

 Merit" printed on 

 them, and he was 

 really too proud to 

 enter into a conver- 

 sation. A few 

 days later I saw him talking with "Aunty" 

 ^IcJMillan, and I could see she was prais- 

 ing me, as Father was having trouble with 



