[His Income]

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HIS INCOIES
III paid my board," my informant told me with a
twinkle in his eye.
He was referring to the $5 be received in the mail
that morning, the weekly check he receives from the shoe
machinery company. He had given it, as uauals,to his wife.
They live on that in addition to their income from stocks
from the machinery company, the $7 board they receive
from their daughter, and small sums they receive from the
sale of a couple of dozen eggs a week...
*WO don't ask nothing from none of our children."
He reiterated several times about the generosity
of the company who had given him the twelve shares when
he left the compnay, the ten dollar a week spipend the
first year of his illness and the five dollar a week
check they have sent him in the last four years.
*They done fine by 218.
"And in addition to them stocks they give me, I
got a few more. Some years ago I bought some unbeknownst
to my wife. When the receipt come for them the muss glad.
Wish now Igda bought more. They bring in an income every
so often an' they're always good. During the depression
they went way down, but they're up now agin.