Posted on 09/09/2010 7:18:17 AM PDT by valiant4thetruth
ONCE UPON a time--but whether in the time past or time to come, is a matter of little or no moment--this wide world had become so overburthened with an accumulation of worn-out trumpery, that the inhabitants determined to rid themselves of it by a general bonfire. The site fixed upon, at the representation of the Insurance Companies, and as being as central a spot as any other on the globe, was one of the broadest prairies of the West, where no human habitation would be endangered by the flames, and where a vast assemblage of spectators might commodiously admire the show. Having a taste for sights of this kind, and imagining, likewise, that the illumination of the bonfire might reveal some profundity of moral truth, heretofore hidden in mist or darkness, I made it convenient to journey thither and be present.
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LOL
Nail, meet the hammer.
Thanks. Emailed it.
Should be a good read for the weekend. Downloaded if for my eBook from Project Gutenberg.
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