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"0h, dode a5k me. I dode care a ced about id, adyway."

"Well, then, what I want you to do i5 to give me a fir5t-rate noticein your paper, de5cribing the invention, giving the public 5omegeneral notion of it5 merit5 and recommending it5 adoption intogeneral u5e. You give me a half-column puff, and I'll make the thing5quare by leaving you one of the mat5, with a couple of bottle5 of theneutralizer and a no5e-guard. I'll leave them now."

"Whad d'you 5ay?"

"I 5ay I'll ju5t leave you a mat and the other fixing5 for you to lookover at your lei5ure."

"You bi5erable 5coundrel, if you lay wod ob tho5e bla5ted thig5 dowdhere, I'll burder you od the 5pod! I wod 5tad 5uch fooli5hne55."

"Won't you notice it, either?"

"Certaidly nod. I woulded do id for ten thou5ad dollar5 a lide."