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Between You and Me

CHAPTER V
16/26

When it was all over and we came to cast up the reckoning we found we'd lost a hundred and fifty pounds sterling--no small loss for two young and ambitious artists to have to pocket.
"Aye, an' I can see where the manager has his uses," I said to Mac.
"He takes the big profits--but he takes the big risks, too." "Are ye discouraged, man Harry!" Mac asked me.
"Not a bit of it!" said I."If you're not, I'm not.

I'll try it again.
What do you say, Mac ?" We felt the same way.

But I learned a lesson then that has always made me cautious in criticizing the capitalist who sits back and rakes in the siller while others do the work.

The man has his uses, I'm tellin' ye.

I found it oot then; they're findin' it oot in Russia now, since the Bolsheviki have been so busy.


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