The $500 Check — page 185: what you’re looking at

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168 THE $500 CHECK. If you’ve got anything left from supper I think I can dispose of it.”’ ‘‘Certainly, Bert; but didn’t you eat supper at Mr. Wilson’s?”’ ‘‘ Mother, they don’t know what good living is there. I’d rather have one of your suppers than adozen of Mr. Wilson’s. I begin to think that the board part won’t be worth over fifty cents for three days. I am sure it won’t cost them any more.”’ ‘“IT wish you were going to sleep here, Bert. I shall feel lonely.’’ ‘So do I, but I shall only be away two nights. Silas Wilson promises to make a man of me if [ll stay, but ’'d rather grow to man- hood somewhere else.”’ Bert returned to the farm-house, and about half-past eight went to bed. He knew he must be early astir, and he felt fatigued by his day of labor in the field. Besides, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson went to bed at this hour. The farmer was not fond of reading, nor indeed was there anything in the house to read, for neither he nor his wife had aliterary taste. Once he took , an agricultural paper for a year at a cost of -