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On Mondaythree men sat in council in the "Herald" office; that

is, if staring out of dingy s in a de in council; that hat Mr Fisbee and Parker and Ross Schofield

were doing By almost desperate exertions, these three and Bud Tipworthy

had ed to place before the public the issues of the paper for the

previous week, unaided by their chief, or, rather, aided by long accounts

of his condition and the manner of his mishap; and, in truth, three copies

were at that moment in the possession of Dr Gay, accompanied by a note

froeon to exhibit them to his patient only as a

last resort, as the foreht cause a

relapse

By indiscri as editors, reporters, and typesetters--

and particularly space-writers--the three men had worried out three

issues, and part of the fourth (to appear the next ) was set up;

but they had co, and there were various

horrid gaps yet to fill in spite of a too generous spreading of

advertisee Miss Tibbs, all

of whose recent buds of rhy

the week, and after a long absence the youth returned with a somewhat

abrupt quatrain, entitled "The Parisians of Old," which she had produced

while he waited--only four lines, according to the ardful of art--less than a drop in the bucket, or, to

preserve the figure, a single posy where they needed a bouquet Bud went