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we've lived our whole lives in North America, not appreciating the architect.

The architect is, as Lila describes him, a chubby little furry creature with four orange

teeth and a great big sensitive tale. Now the story begins again with the man

named Astor overhearing a conversation on a ship that he was taking to America.

The Astor Fortune,

Lila, I can't recall, was it the first great fortune or was it just one of the

number of fortunes that were being built out of nature?

Well I think you'd have to say it was one of the many fortunes being made out of

nature because there were great fortunes being made out of the timber trade at the same time.

But down here in, up in Canada for example, but down here in North America's he was our first multi-millionaire for sure and

the story of him coming over on the North Carolina this ship with his seven flutes which he had spent years saving up

money for his passage and buying these flutes and he was going to start a music

business in Manhattan.

And then he overhears the story of these people talking about trading this item where they

could get a markup of something like 900 percent.

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