Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927 / 2008-07-19 00:00:00

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THE SOUL OF NICHOLAS SNYDERS, OR THE MISER OF ZANDAM
By JEROME K. JEROME
Author of "Paul Kelver," "Three Men in a Boat," etc., etc.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1909

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY JEROME K. JEROME
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
Published, September, 1908

THE SOUL OF NICHOLAS SNYDERS, OR THE MISER OF ZANDAM
Once upon a time in Zandam, which is by the Zuider Zee, there lived a
wicked man named Nicholas Snyders. He was mean and hard and cruel,
and loved but one thing in the world, and that was gold. And even
that not for its own sake. He loved the power gold gave him--the
power to tyrannize and to oppress, the power to cause suffering at his
will. They said he had no soul, but there they were wrong. All men
own--or, to speak more correctly, are owned by--a soul; and the soul
of Nicholas Snyders was an evil soul.
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