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Campbell's, several of his friends went there to see him. They assembled on the evening of the same day that he arrived.

     The conversation turned upon the ingenuity of the white men in contriving ways to communicate on paper. Some of the party remarked how words scratched out wonderful it was to think that simply by making marks on paper, and sending the paper to another, two persons could understand as well as if talking together face to face; and how these things were done, it was impossible to conceive. Gist then remarked words scratched out "I can see no impossibility in conceiving how it is word scratched out done. The white man is no magician. It is said that in ancient times when writing first began, a man named Moses word scratched out made marks upon s stone. I too, can make marks upon a stone. I can agree with you by what name to call those marks & that will be writing and can be understood." He then words scratched out took up a small whetstone and with a pin from his sleeve, scratched marks upon the whetstone & said "Thus can I make characters, as Moses did, which every one of you will understand." 
      The young men burst into a laugh. They bantered him upon