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state after state, and land after land, till he swept the great globe and  
culminated in sublime and unimpeached legitimacy in the august London  
Lancet, my cup was full, and I said I was glad I had done it. I think  
that for about eleven months, as nearly as I can remember, Mr.----'s  
daily mail-bag continued to be swollen by the addition of half a bushel  
of newspapers hailing from many climes with the Petrified Man in them,  
marked around with a prominent belt of ink. I sent them to him. I did  
it for spite, not for fun.  
He used to shovel them into his back yard and curse. And every day  
during all those months the miners, his constituents (for miners never  
quit joking a person when they get started), would call on him and ask if  
he could tell them where they could get hold of a paper with the  
Petrified Man in it. He could have accommodated a continent with them.  
I hated ---- in those days, and these things pacified me and pleased me.  
I could not have gotten more real comfort out of him without killing him.  
MY BLOODY MASSACRE  
The other burlesque I have referred to was my fine satire upon the  
financial expedients of "cooking dividends," a thing which became  
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