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Laycock of Lonedale
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Sam Laycock had pawned his life for money and regarded everyone whose life was not devoted to making it as an idler and a waster. In this category he classed his eldest son, Roger, for Roger held there were higher things in life than the accumulation of wealth. Thus, when Sam Laycock came to die, he left his entire estate, valued at one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, to be divided between his sons, James and George, while Roger he cut off with a paltry sum of five thousand. Roger bore no grudge against his father and brothers; instead, he determined to beat them at their own game of money-making, not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. A powerful story of Yorkshire life.
Sam Laycock had pawned his life for money and regarded everyone whose life was not devoted to making it as an idler and a waster. In this category he classed his eldest son, Roger, for Roger held there were higher things in life than the accumulation of wealth. Thus, when Sam Laycock came to die, he left his entire estate, valued at one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, to be divided between his sons, James and George, while Roger he cut off with a paltry sum of five thousand. Roger bore no grudge against his father and brothers; instead, he determined to beat them at their own game of money-making, not as an end in itself, but as a means to an end. A powerful story of Yorkshire life.
313 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1924
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