Extract from "Squattedman in the Wonder City"
So much reasoning gave him a headache. After all, he was a man of action. He had never been good at reasoning, especially if there were any logical conclusions to be drawn from his reasoning. Stupid conclusions, he could extract as many as he wanted. However, stupidities were not going to help him much in that case, so he decided to get down to business. He would do what he already did the other time, when by chance he came across the masked man. It happened shortly after his arrival in New York, when he hadn't even heard of Tammany Hall and was simply looking for a high apartment. The two were traveling in the same elevator, only that Squattedman was going up and the man with a cow mask down. That discrepancy generated some tension between them. Although Squattedman (who went undercover) was the first to enter the elevator, the man with a cow mask came forward and pressed the descent button. But Squattedman counterattacked by pressing the stop switch and then the ascent button. This back-and-forth was repeated several times. In fact, it lasted throughout the morning, until Squattedman lost his temper and pounced on the cow-headed man and began to milk him. Then he still thought he was a cow. Only when he saw that not a drop of milk flowed from his udders, he changed his mind and thought he must be a man with a false cow head. But he tried to tear the mask from his face without success. Taking advantage of Squattedman’s momentary stupor, the cow-headed man took the offensive. Ah, if the elevator had been wide enough to squat! But they were both squeezed like sardines in a tin. It was then that the man with a cow mask socked him on the jaw laying him out.
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