that there is a shop in the Strand where all the books are sold cheap. You get threepence off every shilling, so you would get a ten-and-six book for 7s. 10-½d. That will let you get me a cheapish one next year, after all. I inclose the address.
VII.
Dear Uncle:—Dickson Secundus was looking to-day at "The Formation of Character," which you gave me last year, and he has found out that it was bought in the shop in the Strand that I wrote you about, so you got it for 4s. 6d. We have been looking up the books I got from you at other Christmases, and they all have the stamp on them which shows they were bought at that shop. Some of them I got when I was a kid, and that was the time you gave me 2s. and 3s. 6d. books; but Dickson Secundus and Fox have been helping me to count up how much you owe me as follows:
| Nominal Price. | Price Paid. | ||
| £ s. d. | s. d. | ||
| 1850 | "Sunshine and Shadow" | 0 2 0 | 1 6 |
| 1881 | "Honesty Jack" | 0 2 0 | 1 6 |
| 1882 | "The Boy Makes the Man" | 0 3 6 | 2 7½ |
| 1883 | "Great Explorers" | 0 3 6 | 2 7½ |
| 1884 | "Shooting the Rapids" | 0 3 6 | 2 7½ |
| 1885 | "The Boy Voyagers" | 0 5 0 | 3 9 |
| 1886 | "The Formation of Character" | 0 6 0 | 4 6 |
| 1 5 6 | 19 1½ | ||
| 0 19 1½ | |||
| 0 6 4½ |
