The Tin Box and What it Contained

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had to work when I was a boy, and I've done

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better than I suit him. He's

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tead of Philip," he said. "You'

mothers in the world,

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tute, didn't you?" asked

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t rid of me, and she'll be saying something soon. Like as not, she'll offer to pay

got a nice room that we've kept for a spare c

, cheerfully. "If Philip won't have me for a great-uncle, I'll have

hall try to treat yo

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he was my nephew. Somehow, that stuck-up Philip, with h

e of advantage to them to have a boarder, as it

uch as I used to get-four dollars a week-it'll make us all right, for I'm

ospect that opened up of making up for his lost wages. It wa