But walking wires is my tradeor one of 'em.

Iron wire was not so good a conductor for the telephone current as it was for the telegraph current.

Plenty of poles can be cut from our pine forests and the wires will be the chief expense.

A gigantic fancy flashed across me:This State of New York is a great guitar; yonder, at Albany, are the legislative pegs and screws; down there in Manhattan Island is the great sounding-board; these iron wires are the strings!