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I also desire to stipulate that no statement of my transactions with you shall be allowed to find its way into the public prints , either in China or America . Let the whole matter remain a profound secret between us ; your own interest will be consulted by this as well as mine . If , indeed , it should so happen that you should ever see any remarkable and novel movement in the heavens , of course I can not hinder you from forming your own impressions , and making your own deductions from the phenomena . `` And now , gentlemen , every morning between ten and eleven o'clock , I propose to be here with the papers ; _ price one dollar per copy , cash on delivery _ . '' The bundle , containing one hundred papers , was immediately disposed of ; some gentlemen taking two or three , and others half a dozen . The tongues of my patrons were now unloosed , and they all acceded unhesitatingly to the terms which I had proposed . An elderly Englishman , with a very white waistcoat , and a very large watch-chain , came up to me , and , patting my shoulder , said , `` Why , my son , you have done better than you promised ; you have given us the newspapers in much less than thirty-six hours after their issue at home . ''