" And then the newspaper girl held up her hand. “Mr. Trout—” she said, “if I win, can I take my sister, too?” “Hell no,” said Kilgore Trout. “You think money grows on trees?” *** Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. "
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