180070

Updated: May 26, 2025

Dick Ford, however, although he was not a writer, could read, and had quite a fancy for spelling out a newspaper, and he asserted that the year was eighteen hundred and seventy, and so it was put down "180070," much to the disgust of Uncle Braddock, who did not believe it was so much. "Yer ought to say ef it's before Christ or after Christ," said Aunt Judy.

Frank Richard Stockton - What Might Have Been Expected