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himself a winner in the new game. Indeed, nothing 
concerning these people is more interesting or more 
illuminating than the quickness and success with 
which they adopt the ways of the world when once 
their interest is aroused. That they are honest, 
intelligent, and efficient workers has been proved by 
all who have employed them with discrimination, 
and nowhere better than in the development of the 
large estate of Biltmore, which, the first enterprise 
of great importance to enter the mountains, won its 
way to success by help of the people, though not 
without many and unforeseen difficulties, principally 
in connection with controlling the land purchased. 
