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continue my essay upon political economy. I am not even yet settled  
enough in nerve and brain to resume it.  
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.--Parties having need of three thousand two  
hundred and eleven feet of best quality zinc-plated spiral-twist  
lightning-rod stuff, and sixteen hundred and thirty-one silver-tipped  
points, all in tolerable repair (and, although much worn by use, still  
equal to any ordinary emergency), can hear of a bargain by addressing  
the publisher.  
THE JUMPING FROG [written about 1865]  
IN ENGLISH. THEN IN FRENCH. THEN CLAWED BACK INTO A CIVILIZED  
LANGUAGE  
ONCE MORE BY PATIENT, UNREMUNERATED TOIL.  
Even a criminal is entitled to fair play; and certainly when a man who  
has done no harm has been unjustly treated, he is privileged to do his  
best to right himself. My attention has just been called to an article  
some three years old in a French Magazine entitled, 'Revue des Deux  
Mondes' (Review of Some Two Worlds), wherein the writer treats of "Les  
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