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The Octopus

CHAPTER III
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If you must publish it, let it be in the daily press.

Don't interrupt.

I know what you will say.
It will be that the daily press is common, is vulgar, is undignified; and I tell you that such a poem as this of yours, called as it is, 'The Toilers,' must be read BY the Toilers.

It MUST BE common; it must be vulgarised.

You must not stand upon your dignity with the People, if you are to reach them." "That is true, I suppose," Presley admitted, "but I can't get rid of the idea that it would be throwing my poem away.


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