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XXVIII.

of the ride of a journey however long, arduous, and sleepless to write round -hand for a foreign telegraph clerk ignorant of

the correspondent's language, at the rate of a column an hour for six or eight consecutive hours; after which he should , as a

matter of course, gallop back to the scene of action without an hour's delay.” 10 107 Memories and Studies of War and Peace , pp. 2– 3.