And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales this is your

host John Haggadorn today a humorous story from Edward Everett Hale called my

double and how he undid me.

And here's the plot.

An overworked minister chances upon a man in a poor house who looks very much like him

and decides to engage the man to impersonate him and attend the stupid committee meetings and

social functions that take up his time and prevent it from doing the work which he wants to put

his heart into.

The plan succeeds admirably at first, but then develops problems.

We hope you enjoy my double and how he undid me by Edward Everett Hale.

It is not often that I trouble the readers of the Atlantic Monthly.

I should not trouble them now, but for the importunities of my wife, who feels to

insist that a duty to society is

unfulfilled till I have told why I had to have a double and how he undid me.

She is sure she, that intelligent persons cannot understand that pressure upon public servants which alone drives any man into the employment of a double.

And while I fear she thinks, at the bottom of her heart that my fortunes will never be remade,

she has a faint hope that, as another Rassalis, I may teach a lesson to future publics from which they may profit though we die

Owing to the behavior of my double or if you please to that public pressure which compelled me to employ him

I have plenty of leisure to write this communication.

I am, or rather was, a minister of the Sandamanian connection.

I was settled in the active wide awake town of Nagwadavik,

in one of the finest water powers in Maine. We used to call it a Western town in the heart of the

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