The $500 Check — page 180: what you’re looking at

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EXPERIENCE AS A FARMER'S BOY. 16¢ ‘‘T should want fifty cents an hour, and then { wouldn’t do it.’’ | ‘‘'d work all the year round at that price,”’ said Bert. ‘‘T never expect to work—with my hands,”’’ went on Percy. ‘‘Have you decided what to do?’’ asked Bert curiously. ‘My father wants me to be a manufacturer, but I think I shall be a lawyer.”’ ‘Tam afraid I shan’t have much choice. I must take what I can get.’’ ‘You might stay with Mr. Wilsonand bea farmer.”’ | ‘*T don’t think that will suit me at any rate, unless I can work for a different man.’’ ‘¢ Perhaps father can take you back into the shop when you are older.”’ ‘‘T wish he would take me back now. Ilike it a great deal better than working out in the field here.’’ | ‘You mustn’t get too high notions into your head, Bert. You know you are a working boy and mustn’t expect to have things ail your own way.”’ (E(@) An) (€ JOO <S