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look at it—five thousand dollars ' ^Vhy, he couldn't spend it in a
lifetime! And it would injure him, too; perhaps ruin him—you
want to look at that. In a little while he would throw his last
away, shut up his shop, maybe take to drinking, maltreat his mother-

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less children, drift into other evil courses, go steadily from bad to
worse-----*
*Yes, that's it/ interrupted Rogers, fervently, Tve seen it a
hundred times—yes, more than a hundred. You put money into the
hands of a man like that, if you want to destroy him, that's all; just
pat money into his hands, it's all youv'e got to do; and if it don't pull