" In this stocking, Letitia, you will find the hard savings of my lifetime,— two half-dollars, a silver spoon, a briarwood pipe, and a bottle of red ink ; not much, I will admit, but enough to start house- keeping with if you will only say the word ! " " Reginald Overbeck, you embarrass me ! Think…
Poor children · City and town life · American wit and humor, Pictorial
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
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