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Show Jeffries, Section 3, Page 32 Out back of the restaurant by the dumpster, Dory startled the fellow. "What brings me down this way?" the man responded, "Business!" As in None of Your, Dory thought nervously. Or Mind Your Own. Implicit that The Business of America is Business. "Business as usual," Dory agreed. "What brings me down here is your efforts at statecraft--" "Uh-oh it's the petition--" "As functionary I'm obliged to report that the plenipotentiaries were more than a little upset to receive this--" He slackened his features into a contemptuous look. "--letter. . .from a somewhat perplexed Spanish embassy. . . "And you a schoolteacher. Well you look to me like a reasonable candidate for about six months in a minimum-security federal--" "We were just kidding. . ." "Alien and sedition acts. This is treasonous. I'm telling you one time to think about some weighty words: expatriate. . .BANISH. Do you wish to find yourself in the same sort of trouble that broke the poor heart of that follower of Aaron Burr's crazy scheme. The, waddy'a-call-him, Man without a Country?" |
