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A House-Boat on the Styx
by John Kendrick Bangs (Editor: 1stWorld Library)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society (2006-05-22)
ISBN: 1421817675
EAN: 9781421817675
Dewy Decimal #: 808
Hardcover: 108 pages
Condition: Like New
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Product Description
Charon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly in ferriage which in the course of years he had managed to build up. "It's a great thing," he said, with a smirk of satisfaction - "it's a great thing to be the go-between between two states of being; to have the exclusive franchise to export and import shades from one state to the other, and withal to have had as clean a record as mine has been. Valuable as is my franchise, I never corrupted a public official in my life, and -"
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