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He wrote most of the day, butstopped now and then to read some of the telegrams or letters ofcondolence which came flooding in. words as they fall from your lips, and receive, even as it is uttered, the eloquence of our newest ambassador to the blind. Ament, declaring him to be one who had suffered for the cause, and askedMark Twain, whose brilliant article, h Well, he said, when you pick up that cue this damn table drips atevery pore.

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