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Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer
and the vegetable man and the butcher...
While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the
first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished
flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it
certainly looked poor.
On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat.
Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and
sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always
entered.
But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of
all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest.
Everywhere they are wisest. They are the Magi.