Mr. Morehouse refuses to pay the livestock rate on two guinea pigs, and Mike Flannery, agent of the Interurban Express Company, refuses to accept that they are pets. Rules is rules, so the animals stay in the express office while the question goes up the corporate ladder, and the guinea pigs do what guinea pigs do.
The 1906 short comic story about red tape that made Butler famous, still funny to anyone who has fought a bureaucracy. Download the free EPUB.