Man-traps


IT being unlawful to set man-traps and spring-guns, a gentleman once hit

upon a happy device. He was a scholar, and being often asked the meaning

of mysterious words compounded from the Greek, that appear in every

day's newspaper, and finding they always excited wonder by their length

and sound, he had painted on a board, and put up on his premises, in

very large letters, the following: Tondapamubomenos set up in these

grounds. It was perfectly a patent safety.



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