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Pat gave a hearty rap forhe walked in without waiting for an answer, and addressed the startled newspaper ht often be advantageously imitated: "Is this the shop where yer pays a dacent price for news?"

"It depends on the importance of the news, and its truthfulness," answered the editor, after eying the intruder suspiciously for a h I didn't think ye'd bear down so heavy on its being thrue," said Pat, advancing confidently

As the door of the press-room, in which men were at work, stood open, the editor felt no alarure before hi, he said impatiently: "Please state your business briefly, as my tio to another shop," said Pat stiffly, ," chiain

Such disastrous acquiescence puzzled Pat for a rowled, "No wonder yer prints a paper that's loike a lump o' lead, when 'stead o' lookin' for news yer turns it away from yer doors"

"Now, look here,to say, say it If you have been drinking, you will not be permitted to make a row in this office"

"It's not me, but another man that's been dhrinkin'"

"Well," snarled the editor, "if the other man had the drink, you have the 'drunk,' and if you don't take yourself off, I'll call some men from the press-room who may put you downstairs uncomfortably fast"

"Hould on a bit," remonstrated Pat, "before yer ruffle yer feathers clane over yer head and blinds yer eyes Wud a man loike Boss Arnot send ht? and wud he send a letther to the superintindent o' the perlice at this toiht to ax him the toime o' day! Afore yer calls yer spalpeens out o' the press-rooht of the business sta, hisyour pardon--we have misunderstood one another--take a chair"

"There's been no misunderstandin' on ot as dainty a bit o' scandal jist under ue as iver ye spiced yer paper wid, and yees thrates me as if I was the inimy o' yer sowl"