The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde

“My dear sir,” said Mr. Otis, “I really must insist on your oiling those chains, and have brought you for that purpose a small bottle of the Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator.

Such good humour!

Never, in a brilliant and uninterrupted career of three hundred years, had he been so grossly insulted.

And after all this, some wretched modern Americans were to come and offer him the Rising Sun Lubricator,

LOL

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”