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Show THE KNOCKER'S PRAYER "Please don't let this town grow. I've fought every improvement; I have knocked everything and everybody;, every-body;, no firm or individual has established es-tablished a business without my doing do-ing all I could to put them out. Pve used every underhanded method known to the knocking fraternity to injure their business; Pve lied about, and would have stolen from them if I had had the courage. I have done all I could to keep the town from growing, never have I spoken a good word for it, but instead Pve knocked hard and often. "It pains me to see that in spite of my knocking this town is beginning begin-ning to grow. Some day, I fear, I will be called upon to put down sidewalks side-walks and help keep up the streets that run by niy property. This would be more than I could bear. It would cost me money. ALTHOUGH ALL I HAVE I MADE IN THIS TOWN. "Then, too, more people might come if the town begins to grow. I ask, therefore, to keep this town at a standstill, that I may continue to be the chief knocker. AMEN." Ex. |