Well, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and I inquired after your friend Leonidas
W. Smily, as you requested me to do, and I hereunto append the result. If you can get any information
out of it you are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smily is a
myth—that you never knew such a personage, and that you only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler
about him it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smily, and he would go to work and bore me nearly
to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that
was your design, Mr. Ward, it will gratify you to know that it succeeded.
Well, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and I inquired after your friend LeonidasW. Smily, as you requested me to do, and I hereunto append the result. If you can get any informationout of it you are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smily is amyth—that you never knew such a personage, and that you only conjectured that if I asked old Wheelerabout him it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smily, and he would go to work and bore me nearlyto death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If thatwas your design, Mr. Ward, it will gratify you to know that it succeeded.
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