Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 386
tors were the first borrowers ! There was so great a demand for very smallsums that Ben feared the labor of keeping thebooks would be too great, and he refused to lendany amount smaller than a quarter of a dollar. Thiscaused great dismay among the smaller boys ; and A G R EAT FINANCIAL SC II EME,… … BEN LISTENS TO UNCLE AMRlS LECTURE. (SEE PAGE S51.) The interest on loans was to be paid weekly,but Ben found it very difficult indeed to makehis collections. The boy who borrowed a quar-ter thought three cents a week very little topay for the use of it when he borrowed it. butVol. XII.—54. three…
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