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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: bookkeeping--no accountant in London could understand a word of
any of his books; and then there was Morris, who is perfectly
incompetent. And now it is worth very little. Morris tried to
sell it last year; and Pogram and Jarris offered only four
thousand.'
'I shall turn my attention to leather,' said Michael with
decision.
'You?' asked Joseph. 'I advise you not. There is nothing in the
whole field of commerce more surprising than the fluctuations of
the leather market. Its sensitiveness may be described as
morbid.'
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