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REMINISCENCES OF NEVADA I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that Nevada had lively newspapers in those days. My great competitor among the reporters was Boggs, of the Union, an excellent reporter. Once in three or four months he would get a little intoxicated; but, as a general thing, he was a wary and cautious drinker, although always ready to damp himself a little with the enemy. He had the advantage of me in one thing: he could get the monthly public-school report and I could not, because the principal hated my sheet—the ‘Enterprise’. One snowy night, when the report was due, I started out, sadly wondering how I was to get it. Presently, a few steps up the almost deserted street, I stumbled on Boggs, and asked him where he was going.

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