An unlawful profit.

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1909.  What need of more proof that the gardener’s drifting to sea was a lie, and that the boatman was in the plot for a rake-off on the insurance?—N.Y. Evening Post, April 22.

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1910.  Business is rotten. Everybody, from the office boy up, wants a rake-off or a tip.—Living Church, Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 10, p. 650.

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