Why, he's a sort of chairman of different boards of colleges, and he knows all the heads of the schools, and the professors, so it's no wonder that if he offers to give a pension, or anything, they take it.
Just think of me going up to one of the professors up there in the middle of his teaching and saying; 'I'd like to give you a pension for life!' Imagine it! Think what he'd say!" But the Tomlinsons couldn't imagine it, which was just as well.
So it came about that they had embarked on their system.

Mother, who knew most arithmetic, was the leading spirit.

She tracked out all the stocks and bonds in the front page of the _Financial Undertone_, and on her recommendation the Wizard bought.

They knew the stocks only by their letters, but this itself gave a touch of high finance to their deliberations.
"I'd buy some of this R.O.P.if I was you," said mother; "it's gone down from 127 to 107 in two days, and I reckon it'll be all gone in ten days or so." "Wouldn't 'G.G.

deb.' be better?
It goes down quicker." "Well, it's a quick one," she assented, "but it don't go down so steady.