Some Rides Abroad 



it much better, and that some of my finest 

 finishes were not begun soon enough to make 

 them irresistible. He asked what I thought of 

 the idea. I answered that if he had any much 

 better ideas he ought to bottle them up for 

 consumption by lunatics, and enter the gates of 

 the first aslyum he met large enough to gratify 

 his preposterous appetite. 



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