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Excerpt from The Struggles: Social, Financial and Political of Petroleum V. Nasby
Uv the makin uv books there is no end. The press per petooally groans with a burden uv literatoor, and is bein per petooally delivered, sometimes to the advantage uv the world, and sometimes viey veray. I spose, ef I hed consulted the literary men nv this country (wich I didn't), they wood hev sed to me, Don'tpublish this book; there's reely no okka shun for it! There isn't? Did the capchus adviser see the state nv my pants? Did he observe the wreckt condishun of my boots Is he aware that I am in arrears for board Not publish my book Kin I so far forget my dooty to humanity Its pnblikashen will at least do one su'rin man good, and that's more than half uv the writers kin say. What recks it that that one is m: Wat posterity will say, I don't know; neither do I care. I ain't labrin for posterity; neither did my father, else I hed bin better off. Posterity may assign me a niche in the temple uv massive intellex, or may not; it's all one to the sub scriber. I woodn't give a ten-cent postal currency for wat the next generashen will do for me. It's this generashen I'm goin for. So much for Buckinbam.
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