dividend-cooking

Updated: July 28, 2026

And so, under the insidious mask of an invented "bloody massacre," I stole upon the public unawares with my scathing satire upon the dividend-cooking system. In about half a column of imaginary human carnage I told how a citizen had murdered his wife and nine children, and then committed suicide.

Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)