s National Bank, with its tidy and growing millions of assets,
is functioning at 201 North Oak Street, Bransford, U.S.A.

Just where should these ramblings end? A tragedy ends at the death of
any or all; a comedy ends with one of the revived jokes of former
years; a biography should terminate at the grave, and a romance
finishes as the groom carries his hard-won prize across the threshold
of the cottage or palace. What's the finish here?

A start was made to tell the life story of a midget, but complications
arose that could not be avoided. Instead of traveling the infrequent
paths of the Lilliputians the journey has, in many instances, swept
down the traffic-filled thoroughfare of the big adults. But midgets
are few in number, they have few contacts with each other. In most
every instance, their employment is to exhibit themselves to the
thousands and thousands who come to see and comment.

Midgets do not go to war, cannot win a prize fight, or bust one over
the right field fence for a home run. Their field for service is
limited to public exhibitions; their contacts wholly with the
questioning adult. The tragedies of a midget are of the lighter sort,
comedies prevail only in a minor degree, romance is a limited factor,
and in this particular instance, these ramblings cannot be classed as
biography--the principal characters are still alive.

And because they are still alive and functioning, the reader is
invited out to the Adot vicinity to see--and maybe participate--in the
continuing story.

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