TAKING THE PAPER.

"SIR," said a pompous personage who once undertook to bully an editor,

"do you know that I take your paper?" "I've no doubt you take it,"

replied the man of the quill, "for several of my honest subscribers have

been complaining lately about their papers being missing in the

morning."

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