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Excerpt from A Good Man
This crippled him greatly in his business. But Deacon Spooner's word was as good as his bond. Business men knew him well and trusted him implicitly. They were ready to help him, and by their timely aid the difficulties of his situation were tided over, and he was enabled at length, some three years ago, to retire from business with a competency for old age. But he could not be idle, and after trial of a few months of leisure he opened a small grocery store near his residence on High street, for the ao commodation of his neighbors, in which be employed as much of his time as he liked, without interfering with claims of religious or public duty, or any social or private pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
