A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court by Mark Twain Chapter 23 Page 11

guest; then you can turn yourself loose and play your effects for all they are worth.

I know the value of these things, for I know human nature. You can’t throw too much style into a miracle. It costs trouble, and work, and sometimes money; but it pays in the end. Well, we brought the wires to the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground to the platform, and hid the batteries there. We put a rope fence a hundred feet square around the platform to keep off the common multitude, and that finished the work. My idea was, doors open at x:30, performance to begin at 11:25 sharp. I wished I could charge admission, but of course that wouldn’t answer. I instructed my boys to be in the chapel as early as x, before anybody was around, and be ready to man the pumps at the proper time, and make the fur fly.