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The Inventions of the Idiot
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John Kendrick Bangs
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"The
last,
I
think,
would
not
come
about,"
said
Mr.
Pedagog.
"For
there
are
people
who
like
the
music
of
hand-organs."
"True--I'm
one
of
'em.
I'd
hire
a
hansom
to
follow
a
piano-organ
about
the
city
if
I
could
afford
it,
but
as
a
rule
the
hand-organ
lovers
are
of
the
one-cent
class,"
returned
the
Idiot.
"The
quarter
class
are
people
who
would
rather
not
hear
the
hand-organ,
and
it
is
to
them
that
a
grinder
of
business
capacity
would
naturally
address
himself.
It
is
far
pleasanter
to
stay
at
home
and
be
paid
large
money
for
doing
nothing
than
to
undertake
a
weary
march
through
the
city
to
receive
small
sums
for
doing
something.
That's
human
nature,
Mr.
Pedagog."
"I
presume
it
is,"
said
Mr.
Pedagog;
"but
I
don't
think
your
scheme
is.
Human
nature
works,
but
your
plan
wouldn't."
"Well,
of
course,"
said
the
Idiot,
"you
never
can
tell
about
ideals.
The
fact
that
an
ideal
is
ideal
is
the
chief
argument
against
its
amounting
to
much.
But
I
am
confident
that
if
my
Beggar's
Don't
and
Elite
Directory
fail,
my
other
book
will
go."
"You
appear
to
have
the
writing
of
a
library
in
mind,"
sneered
the
Bibliomaniac.
"I
have,"
said
the
Idiot.
"If
I
write
all
the
books
I
have
in
mind,
the
public
library
will
be
a
small
affair
beside
mine."
"And
your
other
book
is
to
be
what?"
queried
Mr.
Whitechoker.
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