of good rye whiskey would go trickling down your
throat to reward you for your act of intelligence. The deputies was
annoying me and Andy someand when Bill spoke to me about his
officious aspirationsI saw how the appointment as Marshall might help
along the firm of Peters & Tucker.
'Jeff' says Bill to me'you are a man of learning and education
besides having knowledge and information concerning not only rudiments
but facts and attainments.'
'I do' says I'and I have never regretted it. I am not one' says I'who
would cheapen education by making it free. Tell me' says I'which is of
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the most value to mankindliterature or horse racking?'
'Why--er--playing the po--I meanof coursethe poets and the great
writers have got the callof course' says Bill.
'Exactly' says I. 'Then why do the master minds of finance and
philanthropy' says I'charge us $2 to get into a race-track and let us into a
library free? Is that distilling into the masses' says I'a correct estimate of
the relative value of the two means of self- culture and disorder?'
'You are arguing outside of my faculties of sense and rhetoric' says
Bill. 'What I wanted you to do is to go to Washington and dig out th
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