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The Autobiography of Methuselah

CHAPTER IX
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And in order to ensure their freedom from evil associations, and to keep them from making the night hideous by their raucous yells, I have never heard of anything better than the method of Doctor Magog Rodd, of the Enochsville Military Academy, who kept his students in cages and corked them up every night before they retir ...
[Illustration: The Head Nurse of the Adam Family.] * * * * * ...

so no more at present.

My manuscript already weighs three hundred and forty tons, and every word of it has been gouged out with my own hands--a difficult operation for a man of my years.

I am painfully aware of its shortcomings, but such as it is it is, and so it must remain.

There is no time left for its revision, and, indeed, a man who has just celebrated his nine hundred and sixty-ninth birthday can hardly be expected ...
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