"
A look of surprise, followed, however, by a kind of pitying smile,
passed over the foreman's face. "Of course, sir, THAT'S all right, and
you know your own business; but if you think that the new advertisement
will pay this time as the other one did, and whoop up another column
from an advertiser, I'm afraid you'll slip up. It's a little 'off color'
now,--not 'up to date,'--if it ain't a regular 'back number,' as you'll
see."
"Meantime I'll dispense with your advice," said the editor curtly, "and
I think you had better let our subscribers and advertisers do the same,
or the 'Clarion' might also be obliged to dispense with your SERVICES."
"I ain't no blab," said the foreman, in an aggrieved manner, "and I
don't intend to give the show away even if it don't PAY. But I thought
I'd tell you, because I know the folks round here better than you do."
He was right. No sooner had the advertisement appeared than the editor
found that everybody believed it to be a sheer invention of his own to
"once more boom" the "Clarion.
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