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Between You and Me

CHAPTER XIV
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There's hard work in it, tae, and the laborer is worthy o' his hire.
Then here's anither point.

Wad I work as I ha' worked were I allowed but such a salary as some committee of folk that knew nothing o' my work, and what it cost me, and meant tae me in time ta'en frae ma wife and ma bairn at hame?
I'll be tellin' ye the answer tae that question, gi'en ye canna answer it for yersel'.

It's NO! And it's sae, I'm thinkin', wi' most of you who read the words I've written.

Ye'll mind yer own affairs, and sae muckle o' yer neighbors as he's not able to keep ye from findin' oot when ye tak' the time for a bit gossip! It'll be all verra weel to talk of socialism and one thing and another.

We've much tae do tae mak' the world a better place to live in.


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