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Rh pay well, and again they do not. It's an operation such as business men enter into every day, and in this case, as far as you are concerned, it is legitmate, since you are going to buy the stock outright, and not speculate in it by buying on a margin. As I said, I will not advise you. Buy that stock if you want to, and I'll say nothing which ever way the cat jumps. It's your money and you will have to foot the bill. I wouldn't risk more than a hundred dollars though."

"That will give me two hundred shares at fifty cents each," Ned replied, figuring on the back of an envelope. "If it goes to five dollars a share I'll make nine hundred dollars profit. That would be fine!"

"So you've decided to buy it, eh?"

"I think so. I'll get it when I go to New York to Uncle Kenfield's house."

"Very well, Ned. You may do so. Only remember one thing, just repeat to yourself that old proverb about counting your chickens before they're hatched."

"Oh, well, I may not make nine hundred dollars, but I'm bound to clear some profit, The stock can't go much below fifty cents a share," Ned remarked hopefully.

"That's your lookout," his father replied.