come down here! I wasn't very flush when I got here, but I don't intend
to go away till I've put myself into thorough repair.
Yours, SARSFIELD YOUNG.
[Footnote 1: SOAPINGTON, of the hotel here, and I, have been skirmishing
over a board bill for a couple of weeks, and he has finally outflanked
me to the amount of about $40. I think if you will insert this
correspondence it will be all right. S. will succumb.]
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A War Conundrum.
When are soldiers like writers for the press? When they charge by the
column.
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A well-tilled Soil.
The article on DICKENS, in the August number of the _Atlantic Monthly_,
is certainly suggestive of fresh Fields, if not of pastures new.
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