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Timothy Crump's Ward - A Story of American Life by Horatio Alger
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"Twenty dollars a quarter," said Mr. Harrison; "that I consider
reasonable."

"It is satisfactory to me," was the cooper's reply, "and, if you
have no objections to me as a tenant, I will engage it at once."

"Far from having any objections, Mr. Crump," was the courteous
reply, "I shall be glad to secure so good a tenant. Will you go over
and look at the house?"

"Not now, sir; I am somewhat in haste. When can we move in?"

"To-day, if you like."

His errand satisfactorily accomplished, the cooper returned home.
Meanwhile the landlord had called.

He was a little surprised to find that Mrs. Crump, instead of
looking depressed, looked cheerful, rather than otherwise.

"I was not aware you had a child so young," he remarked, looking at
the baby.

"It isn't mine," said Mrs. Crump, briefly.

"The child of a neighbor, I suppose," thought Colman.

Meanwhile he scrutinized closely, without appearing to do so, the
furniture in the room.

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