Sneaky Jake looked very hurt, and cast an innocent expression toward the townspeople. Then he clambered down from the statue to address the protesting goat. “Now, no w, er....”
“Mayor Betty the Mountain Goat!” volunteered the public relations manager from where he was jostling for a better place in line.
Sneaky Jake was once again relieved. “Now, Mayor Betty, surely you can’t doubt that heat itself exists...”
“Who said I did?” snapped Mayor Betty. “My point concerns your attempt to sell caloric in a bottle for $45 plus tax. After all, you say caloric is invisible, and wei ghtless”
“But not without volume!” cut in Sneaky Jake, who was not at all worried. “Why do you have cracks in the sidewalk?” Sneaky Jake took a lengthy pause at this point to allow the citizens of Farbisnot to scratch their warmly hooded heads. “Why, those cracks are for thermal expansion, which occurs when a hot summer day heats up the concrete--and everything else--with a flow of caloric, the same stuff you could have if you bought up these bottles for only $45 plus tax. And at night or during the winter when it’s cold again, the caloric in the sidewalk flows out and it contracts again. What more proof do you need?”
Mayor Betty thought that one over...That did seem pretty reasonable...But she was sure Sneaky Jake was just conning her constituents, so she decided she had to take further acti on by pointing out some obvious examples, such as...
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