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me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it  
from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger  
the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands. Heaven knows  
if I had but been ignorant instead of cultivated, and impudent instead of  
diffident, I could have made a name for myself in this cold, selfish  
world. I take my leave, sir. Since I have been treated as you have  
treated me, I am perfectly willing to go. But I have done my duty. I  
have fulfilled my contract as far as I was permitted to do it. I said I  
could make your paper of interest to all classes--and I have. I said I  
could run your circulation up to twenty thousand copies, and if I had had  
two more weeks I'd have done it. And I'd have given you the best class  
of readers that ever an agricultural paper had--not a farmer in it, nor a  
solitary individual who could tell a watermelon-tree from a peach-vine to  
save his life. You are the loser by this rupture, not me, Pie-plant.  
Adios."  
I then left.  
THE PETRIFIED MAN  
Now, to show how really hard it is to foist a moral or a truth upon an  
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