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COMPLIMENTARY.
The editor of the Cleveland Leader brought his wife
and eleven children—all boys and girls—to “Eli Perkins's”
lecture on free tickets, and then went home
and deliberately wrote and punctuated the following:
“A poor man fell over the gallery last night while `Eli Perkins'
was lecturing in a beastly state of intoxication.”
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