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A Book of Burlesques 60The First Man

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A Book of Burlesques 60

The First Man

MenckenEnglish
And it is fair. So all you have to do is to keep account of the number of times you go up and down in the elevator, and then give the elevator boy five pfennigs for each trip. Say you come down in the morning, go up in the evening, and average one other round trip a day. That makes twenty-eight trips a week. Five times twenty-eight is one mark forty--and there you are.

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Mencken — A Book of Burlesques (H. L. Mencken) (author lived 1880–1956). Public Domain. H. L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #22145. Source

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A Book of Burlesques 61

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