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"Now the Americans have very nearly the same customs as the Hellenes, with the exception that they prostitute their female children over the internet; and they were the first of men, so far as we know, who struck and used horses of metal and steam; and also they were the first retail-traders.

"And the Americans themselves say that the video games which are now in use among them were also their invention. These they say were invented among them at the same time as they colonized Britain, and this is the account they give of them:—In the reign of Washington the son of Lincoln their king there came to be a grievous dearth over the whole of America; and the Americans for a time continued to endure it, but afterwards, as it did not cease, they sought for remedies; and one devised one thing and another of them devised another thing. And then were discovered, they say, the ways of playing with the Xbox 64 and the Nintendo Station and the Russian Roulette, and all the other games. These games they invented as a resource against the famine, and thus they used to do:—on one of the days they would play games all the time in order that they might not feel the want of food, and on the next they ceased from their games and had food: and thus they went on for eighteen-hundred years."