This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ..."but I don't see that it makes a great deal of difference if your friend is willing to take all the rest." "He said he would yesterday," said Helen; "but tonight I can only get him to take four shares." Joy ceased looking after the interests of her own articles, and devoted herself to offering the Mercury shares to all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ..."but I don't see that it makes a great deal of difference if your friend is willing to take all the rest." "He said he would yesterday," said Helen; "but tonight I can only get him to take four shares." Joy ceased looking after the interests of her own articles, and devoted herself to offering the Mercury shares to all who stopped at her table. She met with no success, however, for every one seemed to have done spending money for that evening. Then Joy in desperation bought the remaining twenty shares with the ten-dollar bill that Uncle Briar had given her, with the sinking feeling at her heart that after all not a cent of it would go to the fair, but all would belong to the firm that had furnished the statuette. "Of course I shall draw it," she thought; "and then I will give it back to the fair, and they can sell it at auction with the other things left over." But the strange fate that presides over lotteries decreed that Helen's friend should hold the lucky number that drew the Mercury, which he immediately presented to her. Three dollars was the highest sum that had been offered for Miss Earle's water-color, and Joy could have cried when she saw it carried away; the photographs were all sold at only an advance of a few cents over their original price; the chromo scrap-books would not sell at all, and were disposed of at the auction for about half their cost. When the reports were handed in, Helen Earlewinne gave thirty dollars as her share, while Joy could only show four dollars and thirty-seven cents. "I am afraid the art table would not have amounted to much without Miss Helen's assistance," was the remark made by the president of the fair; and poor Joy ran and hid in the coal-closet, where sh...
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