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 company and told a salesman there all about my trouble. He was very nice, and very interested, and explained that all of my trials were due to rules that the railroads had just adopted, and which the Indianapolis manager probably didn't know about.

I'll tell you what we'll do,' he said; 'You let us know when you are ready to go, and we'll send up after the machine, and we'll clamp it into the case, and put the case into a wooden box and pack it around with excelsior, and send it by express.'

But,' I said, 'what's the advantage of having a case, if you do it so?'

Why—well—you get it home that way, you know.'

"But I couldn't see exactly where the advantage lay, in that.

"Then I went to the express office; and the agent said that he would ship it in the case, without boxing,—for exactly double rates.

"I decided to make another effort to check it, and if I couldn't, to take it on the train with me.

"I was going from there to East Aurora, New York, and didn't have to change cars at all; so