rubber-seed

Updated: May 3, 2025

All you have to do is buy timber land you can get it for a song plant your rubber-seed, and let 'er go, Gallagher! In ten years you go back, cut off your timber, sell it for enough to make you rich, and there is your rubber velvet!" he concluded, triumphantly. "Rubber velvet?" "Yes. It's 'velvet' all clear. You can't lose. My boy, there's a thousand ways to get rich down here, and I know 'em all.

Rex Ellingwood Beach - The Ne'er-Do-Well