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The American Baron

CHAPTER XV
13/25

So I came over here, took a fancy to the Pope, enlisted, was at Mentana, fit there, got promoted, went home, couldn't stand it, and here I am, back again; though how long I'm going to be here is more'n I can tell.
The fact is, I feel kind of onsettled." "Why so ?" "Oh, it's an aggravating place, at the best." "How ?" "There's such an everlasting waste of resources--such tarnation bad management.

Fact is, I've noted that it's always the case wherever you trust ministers to do business.

They're sure to make a mess of it.
I've known lots of cases.

Why, that's always the way with us.

Look at our stock-companies of any kind, our religious societies, and our publishing houses--wherever they get a ministerial committee, the whole concern goes to blazes.


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