It was $42.04.
They left out the stationery, and had only twenty-three cuspidors.

The extra four cents was for two postage stamps.
The only reason I can imagine why more men don't go into this industry is because they don't know about it.

And just here it strikes me that it might not be wise to publish what I've said.

Perhaps if it gets to be known what a snap this manufacture of "Democracies" is, all the green-goods men, the bunco-steerers, and the young Napoleons of finance will go into it and the public will be humbugged more than it has been.
But, after all, what difference would it make?
There's always a certain number of suckers and a certain number of men lookin' for a chance to take them in, and the suckers are sure to be took one way or another.
It's the everlastin' law of demand and supply..