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The American Claimant

CHAPTER III
11/19

I shall have a monopoly; they'll all belong to me, won't they?
Two thousand policemen in the city of New York.

Wages, four dollars a day.

I'll replace them with dead ones at half the money.
"Oh, prodigious! I never thought of that.

F-o-u-r thousand dollars a day.

Now I do begin to see! But will dead policemen answer ?" "Haven't they--up to this time ?" "Well, if you put it that way--" "Put it any way you want to.


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