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To: Ilaine who wrote (23158)9/26/2007 9:33:03 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (2) of 218118
 
>>It's a very ugly business these guys are engaged in. Rapacious is putting it mildly.<<

Reminds me of an 1890s story I read in grade school where I grew up on the northern plains. The title lodged in my brain all these years, and helped influence my profound desire to avoid domination and control by usurious money lenders...

UNDER THE LION'S PAW
by Hamlin Garland
xroads.virginia.edu

Haskins sat down blindly on a bundle of oats near by, and with staring eyes and drooping head went over the situation. He was under the lion's paw. He felt a horrible numbness in his heart and limbs. He was hid in a mist, and there was no path out.
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