"Do I dream? Man avoid man? and in danger-time too?"
Putnam's Monthly Magazine - August 1854 - page 134
I seized it; I snapped it; I dashed it; I trod it; and dragging the dark lightning-king out of my door, flung his elbowed, copper sceptre after him.
But spite of my treatment, and spite of my dissuasive talk of him to my neighbors, the Lightning-rod man still dwells in the land; still travels in storm-time, and drives a brave trade with the fears of man.
-- Putnam's Monthly Magazine Volume 4, August 1854, page 134; reprinted in Herman Melville, The Piazza Tales (New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856).
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