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He pressed a bill into the boy's hand. "At Blankville Junction you can get a train back before long, I guess. Never mind that cold-blooded editor on the World; try the other papers again; keep at it; that's what I did; and it pays in the end. Hello, are we stopping here?" The train had slowed down and now it paused for an instant beside a little box of a station.
And he became at last a great railroad engineer. He built that great bridge at Blankville. "Why," said John Harlan, "I thought your Uncle David built that." "So he did," said Harry. "My uncle was the boy that could not learn Latin." "I suppose," said Tom Miller, "that God has use for us all, boys. Perhaps Jimmy's father was as much intended to make shoes as mine to preach.
No doubt it was the expression of the homesickness at my own heart but only one or two of the chapters ever took shape, for I was tortured by the feeling that no matter how great the intellectual advancement caused by hearing Edwin Booth in Hamlet might be, it would avail me nothing when confronted by the school committee of Blankville, Illinois.
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