To pay as you go is the bestSplan, especially if the man in charge will not let you go till you do pay. It is said a bar of iron worth £l, if worked into horse-shoes, is worth £2; if into needles £7O; if into penknife blades, £650; if into balance springs, £50,000.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 213, 19 August 1884, Page 2
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53Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 213, 19 August 1884, Page 2
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