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 tails, and made her open her mouth and explained that meteors weren't lacking in front teeth in their upper jaws, and didn't chew cud;—until I wished that a genuine meteor would come along and show him how it was different from a cow.

"But I am not going to tell you about my visit in Columbus, or anywhere else, until I get home; and the rest of this letter is going to be a wild and weird tale entitled, 'The Case of the New Type-writer.' Doesn't that sound legal, or criminal, or something?

"The machine reached Columbus all right. It came packed in a wooden box, and the case came the next day, packed in another; and Father got into town the same day. He stayed only half of the week, and then went on, and said for me to start for Washington on Wednesday, and he would get there about Saturday night.

"I felt pretty fine when I clamped the machine into the case and locked it, and reminded myself that there wasn't another thing to do until I unlocked it in the hotel in Washington. I sent it to the station with my trunk; and then, when I went down to take my train, at about nine o'clock that night, I went into the baggage room