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` Before long the New York man began slurring his words , running them together and sticking the signals ; but I had been used to all that sort of thing in taking reports , so I was n't put out in the least . At last , when I thought the joke had gone far enough , and as the special was nearly finished , I calmly opened the key and remarked over the wire to my New York rival : '' ` Say , young man , change off and send with the other foot ! ' '' ` This broke the fellow up so that he turned the job over to another operator to finish , to the real discomfiture of the fellows around me . ' `` Friend Adams goes on to tell of other happennings at the Hub : '' ` One day Edison was more than delighted to pick up a complete set of Faraday 's works , bringing them home at 4 A.M. and reading steadily until breakfast time , when he said , with great enthusiasm : '' ` Adams , I have got so much to do and life is so short , _ I am going to hustle _ ! ' '' '' ` Then he started off to breakfast on a dead run . ' `` He soon opened a workshop in Boston and began making experiments . It was here that he made a working model of his vote recorder , the first invention he ever patented .