The $500 Check — page 52: what you’re looking at

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UNCLE JACOB’S WaLKING PAPERS. O¢ about my plan of opening a cigar store in Lake- ville ?”’ ) ‘‘T cannot advise you to do it,’’ rejoined the squire, hastily. ‘* You woulin’t make enough to pay your rent, or not much more.”’ ‘Don’t the men in your factory smoke? There’s a good many of them. If{I could get their trade——’’ ‘‘They smoke pipes for the most part,’’ said the squire, hurriedly. ‘‘ They’d find cigars too expensive.’’ ‘‘T meant to combine candy with cigars. That would be a help.’’ “They keep candy at the grocery store, Uncle Jacob.”’ ‘‘T see there isn’t much show for me. Now if I only understood your business, you could giveme something to doin the factory, Albert.”’ ‘‘But you don’t, and, in fact, Uncle Jacob, it?s too hard work for a man of your age.”’ ‘Then what would you advise me to do, Albert?’’ asked the old man, earnestly. | Squire Marlowe assumed a thoughtful look. In fact, he was puzzled to decide how best to get rid of the troublesome old man. To hava GOomichoo cS (E(@) m