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"Well, you see," said the editor apologetically, "your not being in our regular e in this unusual way and hour--"

"But, begorry, soood of you to coive me the points, and I will jot theive me for the pints?"

"That depends upon what they are worth News cannot be paid for till we learn its value"

"Och! here I'rate risk in tellin' ye at all, and whin I've spilt it all out, and can't pick it up agin, yewid me rubbish"

"If you find what you have to report in the paper, youSo if you will look at the paper to-morrow you can see whether it will be worth your while to call again," said the editor, becoet

"But I'ht Dade, it's as o home widout 'em"

"See here,very energetically, "my time is very valuable, and you have taken considerable of it Whateverto est part o' the news is goin' to happen to-ht?"

"Will ye promise not to mention me name?"

"How can I mention it when I don't know it?"

"That's thrue, that's thrue Now me mind's aisy on that pint, for ye must know that Boss Arnot's in'ards are made o' cast-iron, and he'd have no ive me a dollar, at laste"

"Yes, if your story is worth printing, and I give you just three minutes in which to tell it"

Thus pinned down, Pat related all he knew and sur in conclusion: "Ye must know that this Haldane is not a poor spalpeen uv a clerk, but a gintleman's son They sez that his folks is as stylish and rich as the Arnots themselves If ye'll have a reporther up at the office in thereceived his dollar, Pat went chuckling on his way to deliver his employer's letter to the superintendent of the city police

"Faix! I was as wise as a sarpent in not tellin' reen Irishht"