[Elbow-Room by Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)]@TWC D-Link bookElbow-Room CHAPTER XXIII 6/21
It'd be a comfort to any man.
It's the most luxurious leg I ever came across.
If bliss ever kin be reached by a man this side of the tomb, it belongs to the person that gets that leg on and feels the consciousness creeping over his soul that it is his. Consequently, I say that when I offer it to you I'm doing a personal favor; and I think I see you jump at the chance and want to clinch the bargain before I mention--you'll hardly believe it, I know--that I'll actually knock that leg down to you at four hundred dollars.
Four hundred, did I say? I meant six hundred; but let it stand.
I never back out when I make an offer; but it's just throwing that leg away--it is, indeed." "But I don't want an artificial leg," said Brown. "The beautiful thing about the limb," said the stranger, pulling up his trousers and displaying the article, "is that it is reliable.
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