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"And Bobby got all the profit!" expostulated Milt indignantly

"Bobby paid in' theht, and fetchin' the water," she replied chidingly "We was

goin' to keep it a secret till he got enough to buy a pony"

"But I'd ruther buy a house," said Bobby

"I ain't got enough to come in no snidikit," sobbed Co "I ain't saved

much"

"That's because you spend all you earn on candy," rebuked Milt

"I ain't nuther I bought s"

"How ently

"Two dollars and ninety-seven cents," she said, weeping profusely

"I think that's pretty good for a little girl," said Aht to chip in out of your cash on hand what isn't in

the bank and give her some so she could be in on it Here is fifty cents

froive you fifty, Co," said her us

The other boys folloith equal contributions, Bud generously

donating a five-dollar bill he had received that day for a solo at a

iven by Miss Lyte