I quitted the platform that season.
But never mind about that, it is no matter.

Nasby and I saw the machine through a window, and went in to look at it.

The salesman explained it to us, showed us samples of its work, and said it could do fifty-seven words a minute--a statement which we frankly confessed that we did not believe.

So he put his type-girl to work, and we timed her by the watch.

She actually did the fifty-seven in sixty seconds.