but when I saw he really meant what he said, I looked at him for a moment then said, "YES, we have pianos in Montana, and people that can perform on them," for this same New Yorker had been trying to entertain us all the evening on a fine instrument, but the music would make anyone want to leave home.
At another time I happened in a friend's office. He was called to the telephone while I was there, and after he had finished his conversation, he turned to me and said, "Just think of it, I have been talking to a party nine miles away!" I suppose he thought I had never seen a telephone and would run when I heard the bell ring. I looked at him in amazement, for I had talked over the "phone" a distance of seven hundred miles, many times in my western home.
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