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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER XI
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Lugur helps Harry about the farm and Harry likes work in the open, but Harry's voice is worth many farms.

It has improved lately, and next week he goes to Manchester to sing in oratorio.

He will bring a hundred pounds or more back with him." "Then at last he is satisfied and happy." "Happy as the day is long.

He is wasteful though, in money matters, and too ready to give the men he knows a sovereign if they are in trouble.
And it is just wasting yourself to talk to him about wasting money.

I told him yesterday that I had heard Ben Shuttleworth had been showing a sovereign Mr.Harry gave him and that he ought not to waste his money, and he said some nonsense about saved money being lost money, and that spending money or giving it away was the only way to save it.


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