[The Gilded Age Part 5. by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Gilded Age Part 5. CHAPTER XLIII 1/10
The very next day, sure enough, the campaign opened.
In due course, the Speaker of the House reached that Order of Business which is termed "Notices of Bills," and then the Hon.
Mr.Buckstone rose in his place and gave notice of a bill "To Found and Incorporate the Knobs Industrial University," and then sat down without saying anything further.
The busy gentlemen in the reporters' gallery jotted a line in their note-books, ran to the telegraphic desk in a room which communicated with their own writing-parlor, and then hurried back to their places in the gallery; and by the time they had resumed their seats, the line which they had delivered to the operator had been read in telegraphic offices in towns and cities hundreds of miles away.
It was distinguished by frankness of language as well as by brevity: "The child is born.
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