THE COUNTRY BOY
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come later on. If you got a certain number of these chances it reduced the price half. As we paid in milk it meant for the big set of lessons I would only bring one-half as much as I should have had to do had we bought them.
Father had sold out the store on account of my clerking and was surveying a good deal, and working with deeds and legal papers some. He asked me how I got on at the music and I simply smiled and showed him the tickets, “Reward of Merit” printed on them, and he was really too proud to enter into a conversation. A few days later I saw him talking with “Aunty” McMillan, and I could see she was praising me, as Father was having trouble with
