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`` Lasteways that 's what Hogan tells me , but I do n't believe a wurrud he says . Most iv th ' people iv this wurruld is a come-on f ' r science , but I 'm not . Ye ca n't con-vince me , me boy , that a man who 's so near-sighted he ca n't read th ' sign on a cable-car knows anny more about th ' formation iv th ' earth thin Father Kelly . I believe th ' wurruld is flat , not round ; that th ' sun moves an ' is about th ' size iv a pie-plate in th ' mornin ' an ' a car-wheel at noon ; an ' it 's no proof to me that because a pro-fissor who 's peekin ' through a chube all night says th ' stars ar-re millyions iv miles away an ' each is bigger thin this wurruld , that they 're bigger thin they look , or much higher thin th ' top iv th ' shot-tower . I 've been up tin thousand feet on a mountain , an ' they seemed so near that I kept whiskin ' thim off me nose as I lay there on me back , but they was n't anny larger thin they were on th ' sthreet-level . I believe what I see an ' some iv th ' things I 'm told , if they 've been told often , an ' thim facts iv science has not been hung long enough to be digistible . '' But , annyhow , they say that man first begun writin ' whin he had to hammer out his novels an ' pomes on a piece iv rock , an ' th ' hammer has been th ' imblim iv lithrachoor iver since .