| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 121 |
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as well as you might. If you was to make a list of just the things you MUST have before you went out of a Saturday, you'd find the money would go much farther.Instead of doing that you just take the money in your hand withoutknowing exactly what you're going to do with it, and when you come back it's all gone and next to nothing to show for it.' His wife made no reply: her head was bent over the child. `Now, let's see,' went on her husband. `First of all there's the rent. How much did you say we owe?' `Four weeks. That's the three weeks you were out and this week.' `Four sixes is twenty-four; that's one pound four,' said Easton as he wrote it down. `Next?' `Grocer, twelve shillings.' Easton looked up in astonishment. |
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