then have more time to see the boys in the works." In the morning I was up early, and after doing my morning work I was off to Brooks' sex2020 office. When I went in he said: "There it is sex2020 under sex2020 the table." The package was so sex2020 small sex2020 I felt disappointed - a hundred sex2020 dollars worth sex2020 ought to be more, said I to myself; but I took it, and went out among the men. I thought I would try to sell sex2020 it at five dollars a plug, and if I could not sell it at that I would take four dollars. Sex2020 I must make something, for I had borrowed the money to buy it with; and I saw that to clear anything on it, I must at least get four
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dollars a plug. The money which I had borrowed was from three sex2020 fellow servants, sex2020 who had been fortunate in earning some little time and had
saved their sex2020 money. The first man I met in the works bought two plugs, at five dollars each; and after I had been there about an hour all was sold. So I went back with a light heart. Mr. Brooks said sex2020 to me at dinner: "Well, how did you get along sex2020 with your tobacco?" "I did very well," I said, "the only trouble sex2020 was I did not have enough. I sold it for $180." "Well," said he, "if you did, you made more clear money than the works here. How much a plug did you sell it for?" at the same time drawing out his pencil and commencing to figure it up. "I had thirty-six sex2020 plugs,&sex2020 quot; said I, "and I sold them for five dollars a plug." Nothing more was said just then, sex2020 but after dinner Brooks and two of the clerks went out on the sex2020 veranda to smoke. When they sex2020 were in a good way smoking, Brooks slipped into the dining room, and said: "Well, that was fine; you sex2020 got five dollars a plug for the tobacco?" "Oh, yes!" I said, "tobacco is scarce, and they were hungry for it; it went like hot cakes - the sex2020 price was not questioned, I sold at once." "What is the prospect for selling more?" he asked. "Will you sell it
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for half the