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The Colossus

CHAPTER XXVII
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Some of you dry-dock conservative ducks would have let it go by, but papa is nothing if not adventurous.

Papa knows that without adventure you make no discoveries.

But, wow! he did make a monkey of me.

Just think of a floor-walker making a monkey of papa!" He pressed his hand to his brow.

"Why, a floor-walker has been my especial delicacy--he has been my appetizer, my white-meat--but, wow! this fellow was a gristle." "Mr.Flummers," said McGlenn, "we all love you." "Say, John, I owe you two dollars." "No, Mr.Flummers, you don't owe me anything." "But I borrowed two dollars from you, John, when I started _The Bankers' Review."_ "No man can borrow money from me, Mr.Flummers.If he gets money from me, it's his and not mine.


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