3 Truly, Money is infinite and without end on earth: Is it not a humble request to ask for just a little, only enough to live in comfort forever?
4 How can that be too much to ask? How about it, O Money?
CHAPTER 171 aCan it be that I've been going about this all wrong, O Money? Can it be that I must take matters into my own hands?
2 For truly, O Money, a dark and a terrible thought has come over me, and I quiver in fear at the rashness of my own heart.
3 And though I did not bid the thought come to me, it came; and though I did not want to think of it, the thought seized me and would not let me go.
4 Truly, I do not understand what has befallen me, and yet it is befalling me blike nobody's business.
5 Yes, yes, O Money, I confess it; the newspaper I slept under last night on my cpark bench shone like the sun as I awoke, and through its light I beheld the dfiery words of the want ads.
6 And no one knows better than you that I have never sought employment, or in any other way sullied my pure love of you, for your own sake, and yet this terrible temptation has taken me by the throat with a grip of iron.
7 eCan it be that I am teetering on the brink of getting a job? O Money, save me from this dreadful pass, O save me, my only friend.
CHAPTER 181 fIs it not true that only Money gives you really good odds of having your wishes come true?
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2 And is it not true that Money does not fall from the sky like rain, or grow from the ground like wheat?
3 How then can it be wrong to cease waiting for Money to fall from the sky, and to bet instead on rain falling from the sky, onto the wheat that grows from the ground?
4 gFor if this is the only way that Money will come to me, then how else are my wishes to come true?
5 Yea, for I have remembered that I have a hcousin in commodities, and it is possible that he has forgotten his rancor over the money I once lent him.
6 iIndeed, he is a man who professes to believe in taking care of his family, and how many times have I not heard him boast about his willingness to do anything for his brothers and sisters and sons and daughters?
7 Is not a cousin like unto a brother once removed? Would it not be reasonable to advance a brother some small stake in the commodities business? Most assuredly this is so, and will be a great boon to my fortunes, O Money!
8 Certainly he must have forgiven everything by now! Did not his jdaughter recover with the medicine he bought using my money?
9 And truly, thirty-three and a third percent cannot be too high a price to pay for the life of a daughter; How about it, O Money? Do you not agree that others might have charged him forty or even fifty percent?
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