The Difference.
“ Yes." said his wife. “ 1 gave the poor fellow that old black coat of yours. You have had it five or six years, and it’s all out of style. )ou never would have worn it again. M hat difference will it make to you fifty years from now?” Mr. Tvte-Phist took a sheet of paper and figured rapidly upon it for the next fifteen or twenty minutes. "The difference.” he said at last. “ reckoned at compound interest for 50 veers on what 1 could have gat for that coat at a second-hand clothingstore is $197.24 plus! Woman, I believe you want to bankrupt me!”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue I, 5 January 1901, Page 23
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106The Difference. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue I, 5 January 1901, Page 23
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