And well they might, after reading your editorials. They are a disgrace to journalism. You do not seem to know the first rudiments of agriculture. Nothing disturbs clams. Clams always lie quiet.
Clams care nothing whatever about music.
Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day. I never saw anything like it. Your observation that the horse-chestnut, as an article of commerce, is steadily gaining in favor, is simply calculated to destroy this journal. I want you to throw up your situation and go. Certainly not with you in my chair.