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The Iron Puddler

CHAPTER XXVI
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Sugar and starches are the next best things to fat, and that's why we could eat the thick slabs of sweet pie.

We relished it well and have burned it all up in our labor in the mills.

We came out with that healthy sparkle that dyspeptics never know.
When we realized that the reformer didn't know what he was talking about, and that in his effort to help us he was hurting us, we saw he was our enemy, and we gave all of his ideas the "horse laugh." His theory that the boarding-house keepers were in a conspiracy to rob the workers by feeding them pork instead of pineapples turned out to be much like all the "capitalist conspiracies" in Comrade Bannerman's pamphlets.
I am glad I have lived in a world of facts, and that I went therefrom to the world of books.

For I have found there is much falsehood taught in books.

But life won't tell a fellow any lies.
A man who knows only books may believe that by writing a new prescription he can cure the world of what ails it.


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