#Person1#: I enjoy going through secondhand bookstores, don't you? It's interesting to see what people used to enjoy reading. Did you see this old book of children's stories?
#Person2#: Some of these books aren't so old, though. See? This novel was published only six years ago. It costs seventy-five cents.
#Person1#: Hey! Look at this!
#Person2#: What? Are you getting interested in nineteenth-century plays all of a sudden?
#Person1#: Well, look at the words. Someone gave this book as a present, and wrote a note on the inside of the front cover. It's dated 1893. Maybe it's worth something.
#Person2#: Everything on that shelf is worth fifty cents.
#Person1#: But if this is the signature of someone who is well-known, it might bring a lot more. I hear William Shakespeare's signature is worth about a million dollars.
#Person2#: Oh? I can hardly read what that one says. Who wrote it?
#Person1#: The name looks like 'Harold Dickson'. Wasn't he a politician or something? I'm going to buy this book and see if I can find a name looks like that in the library.
#Person2#: Good luck. Your poetry book may make you rich, but I think my seventy-five-cent story is a better buy.
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