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88 the country; in the poorer ones they will not be so much.

Some may wonder why all the people are not rich when living is so cheap. This is easily answered if you only remember that a common laborer works hard all day for ten cents, and so it costs him the price of a whole day's work to spend one night in the inn. This is no cheaper for him than the two-dollar-and-a-half or three-dollar-a-day house is for the laborer in the United States.