[Elbow-Room by Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)]@TWC D-Link bookElbow-Room CHAPTER XXIII 8/21
A man feels like a man when he gets such a thing under him.
Talk about your kings and emperors and millionaires, and all that sort of nonsense! Which of 'em's got a leg like that? Which of 'em kin unscrew his knee-pan and look at the gum thingamajigs in his calf? Which of 'em kin leave his leg down stairs in the entry on the hat-rack and go to bed with only one cold foot? Why, it's enough to make one of them monarchs sick to think of such a convenience.
But they can't help it. There's only one man kin buy that leg, and that's you.
I want you to have it so bad that I'll deed it to you for fifty dollars down.
Awful, isn't it? Just throwing it away; but take it, take it, if it does make my heart bleed to see it go out of the family." "Really, I have no use for such a thing," said Mr.Brown. "You can't think," urged the stranger, "what a benediction a leg like that is in a family.
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