Charon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly in ferriage which in the course of years he had managed to build up. "It's a great thing," he said, with a smirk of satisfaction - "it's a great thing to be the go-between between two states of being; to have the exclusive franchise to export and import shades from one state to the other, and withal to have had as clean a record as mine has been. Valuable as is my franchise, I never corrupted a public official in my life, and -"

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	May 22, 2006
ISBN13	9781421818672
Publishers	1st World Library - Literary Society
Pages	108
Dimensions	140 × 216 × 7 mm · 145 g
Language	English
Contributor	1st World Library
Contributor	1stworld Library

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