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The President

CHAPTER XVII
18/31

We may keep them in the pit what time you will before we begin the butchery--one week, one month, one year.
They cannot escape, since my agents on the floor of the Exchange will be always on the watch to see that they don't climb out.

The first time an offer to buy or sell a share of Northern Consolidated is made, I shall put the price to three hundred.

Our bears, however, know this, and will make no attempt to get away, realizing its hopelessness.

The Storri bear is already dead; that first call for margins killed him, and I send you a specimen of his pelt, to wit, the French shares, with this.

As for the others, whenever you are ready we will call on them for their fur and their grease and what else is valuable about a bear.


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