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Edison had looked over the evening papers, he said to me: 'Do you want to play a game of billiards? Naturally this astonished me very much, as he is a man who cares little or nothing for the ordinary games, with the single exception of parcheesi, of which he is very fond. I said I would like to play, so we went up into the billiard-room of the house.
I'll be out again in a few days, and then we can play some more. But we'll keep down on the ground, we can't fall off of that." "I thought you might like to play some games this morning," Molly suggested, "so I brought over my jackstraws and my Parcheesi board." "Splendid!" cried Marjorie, delighted to have new entertainment.
He flushed a little, and looked at me rather shamefacedly. "See here," he said, "I hope you're not making a bad bargain? I don't want to take advantage of a lady. If you think your brother...." "I was going to buy a Ford, anyway," I said, "and it looks to me as though this parcheesi of yours would be cheaper to run than any flivver that ever came out of Detroit.
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