This one na- tion, which owns six per cent of the earth and is five per cent of the human race, has SEVENTY per cent of the telephones.
The others have less than one telephone per hundred.
"Ten or twelve per cent, Bob says, after expenses are paid."
"Haven't you allays told me as there was no getting more nor five per cent?"
You can't get more than five per cent with security."
Tom, he'd pay you six or seven per zent, an' get a trifle for himself as well; an' a good-natur'd lady like you 'ud like the feel o' the money better if your nephey took part on it."
Well, she let out thirty pound to a young man in the drapering line, and he laid it out i' Laceham goods, an' a shupercargo o' my acquinetance (not Salt) took 'em out, an' she got her eight per zent fust go off; an' now you can't hold her but she must be sendin' out carguies wi' every ship, till she's gettin' as rich as a Jew.