Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Mark Twain
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"No, he isn't. No man is allowed to be disappointed here.
Whatever he wants, when he comes--that is, any reasonable and unsacrilegious thing--he can have. There's always a few millions or billions of young folks around who don't want any better entertainment than to fill up their lungs and swarm out with their torches and have a high time over a barkeeper. It tickles the barkeeper till he can't rest, it makes a charming lark for the young folks, it don't do anybody any harm, it don't cost a rap, and it keeps up the place's reputation for making all comers happy and content." "Very good. I'll be on hand and see them land the barkeeper." "It is manners to go in full dress. You want to wear your wings, you know, and your other things." "Which ones?" "Halo, and harp, and palm branch, and all that." "Well," says I, "I reckon I ought to be ashamed of myself, but the fact is I left them laying around that day I resigned from the choir. I haven't got a rag to wear but this robe and the wings." "That's all right. You'll find they've been raked up and saved for you. Send for them." "I'll do it, Sandy. But what was it you was saying about unsacrilegious things, which people expect to get, and will be disappointed about?" |
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