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CHAPTER V.-MR. PREMCHUND'S RIVULET
OF PROSPERITY IN ITS ONWARD COURSE.
ROM the brief survey given in the
^ preceding chapter of Bombay's
growing trade, it wiii be evident that
Mr. Premchund's own advancing pros-
perity was bound up with it. The larger
the inland and the foreign trade in volume,
the greater are the earnings of a leading
broker, who prefers to adhere to his busi-
ness and works at it with integrity. The
stars in their course seemed in 1859-60,
when trade had already grown up 50 per
cent, more than what it was six years
before, to have been propitious to both
father and son. The hoondee business
was most prosperous and so was that of
brokerage. They say, how insignificant
is the rivulet at its source. But mark it
as it rolls onwards in its course and swells
in volume till it reaches the ocean. Well
may the business progress which Prem-
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OF PROSPERITY IN ITS ONWARD COURSE.
ROM the brief survey given in the
^ preceding chapter of Bombay's
growing trade, it wiii be evident that
Mr. Premchund's own advancing pros-
perity was bound up with it. The larger
the inland and the foreign trade in volume,
the greater are the earnings of a leading
broker, who prefers to adhere to his busi-
ness and works at it with integrity. The
stars in their course seemed in 1859-60,
when trade had already grown up 50 per
cent, more than what it was six years
before, to have been propitious to both
father and son. The hoondee business
was most prosperous and so was that of
brokerage. They say, how insignificant
is the rivulet at its source. But mark it
as it rolls onwards in its course and swells
in volume till it reaches the ocean. Well
may the business progress which Prem-
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