Michael Malone - Weebly

Ernest Ransom, when Ernest asked him, "Where did all
that go?"
"It went down the drain," Bredforet told him.
"Ignoramuses pissed it away. That grinning mustached
monkey Teddy squatting in the smut with his
muckrakers! Big stick, ho! Trust buster, ho! Him and
the worse ones after him. Threw it away in the Atlantic
Ocean, blew it across the sea with kisses. 'Take it, it's
free!' So people did. Let too many goddamn people in
the fool country, and every last one of them thought
they had a right to the moon."
And so it was. The big cheese of the moon was
sliced into smaller and smaller shares, and mice began
to nibble on the rats' portions. Soon nearly everyone
had private cars and nearly no one had private railway
cars. In fact, those trains, in which the granddaughter of
Charles (Bradford IV) and Camilla Dingley still owned
shares though not coaches, no longer even stopped for
passengers in her hometown. The former depot now
belonged to Carl Marco and was rented by Sidney
Blossom. To catch her train, Beanie Dingley Abernathy
was obliged to make her way into Argyle, just as if ten