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Winston of the Prairie

CHAPTER XVIII
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If it stiffens any further, it will break me; and that's not all, you see.
Things have gone tolerably badly with the folks at home, and I fancy it took a good deal of what should have been the girls' portion to start me at Silverdale." "Then," said Winston, "it's no use trying to show you how foolish you've been.

That is the usual thing, and it's easy; but what the man in the hole wants to know is the means of getting out again." Alfreton smiled ruefully.

"I'm tolerably far in.

I could just cover at to-day's prices if I pledged my crop, but it would leave me nothing to go on with, and the next advance would swamp the farm." "Well," said Winston quietly, "don't buy to-day.

There's going to be an advance that will take folks' breath away, but the time's not quite ripe yet.


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