Gr. A. Sala, m a recent periodical, rakes \ ' up something fresh about " Uncle Tom's Cabin." WEed. Mr and Mrs Stowe took it • to the publisher, they only asked £10 for it, but he would not giro that. . So they arranged to get 1Q per rent, of the pro* ceeds of sales. When the publisher gave theni the first cheque of £2,Q,00 they : did not know what to do with it, neither of them having ever seen a cheque. Not long after there came another cheque of £2,000. By that time the gloss of their ignorance wfts worn off. < ~~— '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 145, 28 May 1883, Page 2
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