Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. Altogether the reading of the letters gave him a delightful day, and hisadmiration for Cable grew accordingly. From morning till sleeping-time, all day long. ious to persuade a Chinaman or an Indian or a Kanaka to desert hischurch or a fellow-American to desert his party.
A good many readers insisted on regarding the whole matter asone of Mark Twain's jokes, but its serious acceptance was much wider. It's a classic, just as Professor Winchester says, and it meets his definition of a classic--something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. In January, 1888, Paige promisedthat the machine would be done by the 1st of April. Newspaper men used every inducement to get interviews from him.
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