The Milkmaid and Her Bucket
The
Milkmaid and Her Bucket
A Senator fell to
musing as follows: “With the money which I shall get for my vote in favour of
the bill to subsidise cat-ranches, I can buy a kit of burglar’s tools and open
a bank. The profit of that enterprise will enable me to obtain a long,
low, black schooner, raise a death’s-head flag and engage in commerce on the
high seas. From my gains in that business I can pay for the Presidency,
which at $50,000 a year will give me in four years—” but it took him so long to
make the calculation that the bill to subsidise cat-ranches passed without his
vote, and he was compelled to return to his constituents an honest man,
tormented with a clean conscience.
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