EDITING AN AGRICULTURAL P.APER. 59
as I recommended you to, I might have had a
chance to get my hand in; but you wouldn't do it,
and here you are. I sort of expected you.]
The editor was looking sad and perplexed and
dejected.
He surveyed the wreck which that old rioter and
those two young farmers had made, and then said,
'' This is a sad business—a very sad business. There
is the mucilage bottle broken, and six panes ol
glass, and a spittoon and two candlesticks. But
that is not the worst. The reputation of the paper
is injured, and permanently, I fear. True, there
never was such a call for the paper before, and it
never sold such e large edition, or soared to such
celebrity; but does one want to be famous for
lunacy, and prosper upon the infirmities of his
mind ? My friend, as I am an honest man, the
street out here is full of people, and others are
roosting on the fences, waiting to get a glimpse of
you, because they think you are crazy. And well
they might after reading your editorials. They are
a disgrace to journalism. Why, what put it into
your head that you could edit a paper of this
nature ? You do not seem to know the first rudi¬
ments of agriculture. You speak of a furrow and
a harrow as being the same thing ; you talk of the
moulting season for cows; and you recommend the
domestication of the pole-cat on account of its
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