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These figures cover only the money received 
and expended. They take no account of the 
$4000 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 $16,000 
which, added to $18,936, makes almost $35,000 
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. 
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