All Over the Place

Origin of the Free Market

Even at his age was
brutal keeping up

with Professor X,es-
pecially in the jungle. Could

barely spot ole Bandy Legs
churning the bright dapples!

But we did finally unearth
the object of our search
there in a black mud hole:

a gigantic screw carved
from Monkey-Galena wood.

“The first free market!” he
crowed. More like a torture

instrument,I countered.
But...Free...Market! Has
the resonance all right.

“Especially to the suckers,”
he laughed. Hysterically,
for an academic person.