I could not borrow any more. I joined what he called a "pool." I think it must have been a pool, for I know I fell in and got soaked! That bump set me to thinking. My fever began to reduce. I got the thirty-third degree in financial suckerdom for only eleven hundred dollars. I have always regarded Tom as one of my great school teachers. I have always regarded the eleven hundred as the finest investment I had made up to that time, for I got the most out of it. I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》