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Show READY WITH ANOTHER SCHEME. Thrifty New Englander Was Bound Not to Lose Money. j Nobody had ever had reason to ac-j ac-j ense Abel Pond of being dishonest, but lie was as sharp a man in a bargain bar-gain as could be found in the country. : When the building committee applied 1 to him for a. site for the new library, he was ready to sell them a desirable lot but not at their price. "I couldn't feel to let it go under I $G00," he said, with the mild obsti nacy that characterized all his deal ings wilh his fellow men. "It wouldn't be right." "You ought to be willing to contribute contrib-ute joniething for such an object," said the chairman of the committee. "If it's worlh $600. why not let us have It for $500, and call it you've given the other ?100?" "M'm, no, I couldn't do that," said Mr. Pond, stroking his chin, "but 1 tell you wdiat I will do. You give me $700 for" it, and J'll make out a checfe for $100 and hand it over to you, so's you can head the list of subscriptions with a good round sum, and kind of wake folks up to their duty."- Youth's Companion |