I never could convince them that I could not go to the telegraph poles the same as they did and tell them what was said, or send a message for them to some chief far away, as they had often seen me use my traveling-instrument and cut into the line, sending and receiving messages.
Dodge recounts his struggle to explain the telegraph's function to Native Americans who misunderstood it.
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