Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Change for a Halfpenny: Being the Prospectus of the Napolio Syndicate
For many years the secret of the plant from which Napolio is distilled remained in America, its native land. It was not until comparatively recently that a root of it found its way to London and fell into the hands of an auto-carmelita Brother hood On the banks of the Thames. These energetic brethren, with the assiduity and chemical Skill of the Carthusians or the Benedictines, immediately set to work, aided by Professor Thomas Dewar, and in a surprisingly Short time the country was permeated by the famous modern spirit, to which the appropriate name of Napolio was given - from Nap, Short for the Man of Destiny, whom the Prior of the auto-carmelite Brotherhood resolutely resembles, and Olio, from the Latin word Oleum. In other words Napolio is the Oil of destiny. It has come to stay, and those who do not use it are back numbers.
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