The Man Who Couldn´t Feel Rich (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Man Who Couldn´t Feel Rich When it became clear that Sam meant exactly that, the property improvement people promptly hove into view. There was no doubt about the place being in a definite state of decline and then some, and Sam, sighing a bit as he eyed the saggy-looking, moth-eaten small frame building and the dilapidated grounds around it, said for them to go ahead and fix it up. Well, it was quite an undertaking. Everything from new landscaping to new supporting beams were involved. The biggest single doing, though, was the roof. It truly had been pretty much gone. "Good gosh, Sam," one of the contractors exclaimed, "why, you were practically living in the open! It must have flooded the inside of this place when it rained!" Sam shrugged a bit sheepishly and said, "Well, it doesn´t rain much around here, you know. And once in a while, when I´d go to bed, and I´d look up and see the sky was on the threatening side, I´d go down in the basement to sleep." In two weeks, though, Sam had one of the brightest, coziest little homes in town. It was really a treat to see. People would come and gasp at it as though they could hardly believe their eyes. And at first Sam got quite a big kick out of all this. Or at least he seemed to, although there were some who said afterwards that from the beginning they detected a kind of letdown in Sam´s natural chipperness and high good humor. Anyhow, it became quite evident in the passing weeks that something was bothering Sam. He just didn´t seem to have his old zip. So one day some people stopped Sam and asked him if anything was the matter, and he got thoughtful and then said, no, not really, he guessed. "The only thing is," he said, "here I am, inherited a big fortune and all that, and still I don´t feel very rich - like I ought to." "Well, maybe being as poor as you were for so many years," somebody suggested, "it is just naturally kind of hard to adjust yourself to being super rich." Sam said that sounded like a good reason, and he quit worrying. But still he didn´t seem quite able to feel very rich. So another said maybe he ought to get him a real high-class outfit, a tweed suit imported from England that cost at least $150, genuine Scotch grain shoes, and a twenty-dollar hat and all that. All of which Sam did very faithfully and earnestly. But he still wound up not being able to feel rich. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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