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bargain. They were bought used for three hundred dollars in order to save
the forty dollar cost of remachining the automatic transmission that failed
in one of his yet unpaid-for used cars.
Despite his poor sense of economy, Mr. Kent's fondest dream is having
the wealth to retire at thirty-five, spend a few years perfecting his banjo
technology, and single-handedly effect a revival of interest in the banjo.
This wish makes him extremely susceptible to "get rich quick" schemes.
In fact, he left England because he had been led to believe that skilled die-
makers could write their own pay checks in America. Recently he made the
acquaintance of a Romanian immigrant with an unpatented process for
producing synthetic padding. Mr. Kent is now his full partner and together
they have composed a five hundred dollar list of equipment that they intend
to buy and install in Mr. Kent's basement.
A patsy? A dreamer? Yes, I'd say Mr. Kent is both. But a banjo revival
certainly is overdue, and the Romanian could be a genius. I certainly won't
be the one to say that John A. Kent isn't the man of destiny he believes
himself to be.
The Advantages of Restraint
Elizabeth Crabtree
Rhetoric 102, Final Exam
The following discussion is based on these two poems
Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
My little Rose is withered now
On earth's soft breast she lays her head.
Alas ! Alas ! I know not how
To live my life since she be dead.
A goodly child and full of
glee
With sweetness in each
laughing smile.
She lives yet in my memory
As now I walk life's lonely
mile.
;
:
Jesus