It would be worse than wasted,
if, while burning, it should also hurt the person who held it. If you
should buy cigars or tobacco with your dollar, and smoke them, you could
soon burn up the dollar and hurt yourselves besides.

Can you count a million? Can you count a hundred millions? Try some day
to do this counting. Then, when you begin to have some idea how much six
hundred millions is, remember that six hundred million dollars are spent
in this country every year for tobacco--burned up--wasted--worse than
wasted.

Do you think the farmer who planted tobacco instead of corn, did any
good to the world by the change?

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

1. How may one waste money?

2. Name some good ways for spending money.

3. How does the liquor-drinker spend his money?

4. What could we do, if no money was spent for
liquor?

5. Tell two ways in which you could burn up a
dollar bill.

6. Which would be the safer way?

7. How much money is spent for tobacco, yearly, in
this country?

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Transcriber's Notes:

This book contains pronunciation codes. These are indicated in the text
by the following

breve: [)i]
macron: [=i]
tilde: [~i]
slash through the letter: [\l]

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

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