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A short story written by Mark Twain in 1870.

Excerpt:

POLITICAL Economy is the basis of all good government. The wisest men of all ages have brought to bear upon this subject the –

Here I was interrupted and informed that a stranger wished to see me down at the door. I went and confronted him, and asked to know his business, struggling all the time to keep a tight rein on my seething political economy ideas, and not let them break away from me or get tangled in their harness. And privately I wished the stranger was in the bottom of the canal with a cargo of wheat on top of him. I was all in a fever, but he was cool. He said he was sorry to disturb me, but as he was passing he noticed that I needed some lightning-rods. I said, “Yes, yes — go on — what about it?” He said there was nothing about it, in particular — nothing except that he would like to put them up for me. I am new to housekeeping; have been used to hotels and boarding-houses all my life. Like anybody else of similar experience,… (Taken from http://etext.lib.virginia.edu)