There is a short story on project Gutenberg where everyone is waiting on the guy to show up. In the end all they get is a glimpse of his butt getting in a carriage.

I cannot, for the life of me, recall the name or author. It was a popular male author from the early 1800s. Not Poe. Probably NY/New England.

Encyclopedia Brown. Third grade was a good year.

Art Buchwald should not have settled his suit over Coming to America. He could have exposed so many illegal practices. They paid him to go away and keep the cash flowing.