"Bolivar cannot carry double."

[bandwraith at aol.com]

Not unless he's got some of that Iceland Spar in his saddle bag...

Daniel Julius:

"I like your email handle"

Thanks. Here's your reward for the compliment. It's
a little proto-steampunk from around the time of the
opening of ATD, by another long lost cuz- O Henry:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Financial_skeptic/Reprints/roads_we_take.shtml

It's a five minute read. It plays on the symmetry between the myths of
the wild west and the robber barons of wall street. Enjoy.