Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-08-07

him, (the GazeHe) the supreme, and indeed
the whitening contempt with which the crit
cs of him he ca Gasee1 nTsprpes; res; TIE he indie
| posing for the special qualification tO of him,
| (the Gdsette,) leading article. Of some extent,
| in which the beautiful vowel-the emblem of
| Eternity-vet so inotfensive to the hyper-ex.
quisite delicacy of him, (the Gazettel shall
| most certainly not be avoided by his (the Ga
| zefte'sJ most obedient, humble servant, the
1ea-Pot. so much for Buckingham!" Is,
In fulillment of the awful threat
thus darkly intimated rather than de-
cidedly enunciated, the great Bullet
head, turning q deaf ear to all entrea-
ties for copy" and simply requesting
| his foreman to ego to the devil, when
he (the foreman) assured him (the Tea
Pot y that it was high time to "go to
press" turning deaf ear to everything,
1 say, the great Bullet-head sat up un-
til day-break, consuming the midnight
oil, and absorbed in the composition of
the really unparalleled paragraph,
which follows:
so no, John! how now? Told
you so, you know. Don't crow, another
time, before you're out of the woods!
Does your mother know you're out ?
Oh, no, no!--so go home at once, now,
John, to your odious old woods of Con-
cord! Go home to your woods, old owl,
go You won't? Oh, poh, poh,
John, don't do SO! You've got to go,
you know! So go at once, and don't go
slow; for nobody owns you here, you
know. Oh, John, John, if you don't
go you're no homo--no! You're only q
fowl, an owl; COW, SOW; doll, a
poll; a poor, old, good-for nothing-to-
nobody, log, hog, dog or frog, come
out of Concord bog. Cool, now
cool! Do be cool, you fool! None of
your growing, old cockl Don't frown
so-don't. Don't hollo, nor howl, nor
growl, nor bow-wow-wow! Good Lord,
John, how you do look! Told you so,
you know--but stop rolling your goose
of an old poll about SO, and go and
drown your SORROWS in bowl!'
Exhausted, very naturally, by so stu
pendous an effort, the great Touch-and-
go could attend to nothing farther that
night. Firmly, composedly, yet with
an air of conscious power, he handed
his MS. to the devil in waiting, and
then, walking leisurely home, retired,
with inefable dignity, to bed.
Meanwhile the devil to whom the
copy was entrusted, ran up stairs to his
" case, in an unutterable hurry, and
forthwith made commencement at
setting" the MS. cup"
In the first place, of course as the
opening word was " So"--he made q
plunge into the capital S hole and came
out in triumph with a capital S. Elated
by his success, he Immediately threw
himself upon tho little.o box with blind
fold impetuosity-but who shall describe
his horror when his fingers came up
without the anticipated letter in their
clutch? Who shall paint his astonish-
ment and rage at perceiving, as he
rubbed his knuckles, that he had been
humping them to no purpose, against
the bottom of an empty box. Not a
single little-o WAS III she little-o hole:
and, glancing fearfully at the capital-O
partition, he found that, to his extreme
terror, in precisely similar predica-
ment. Awe stricken, his first impulse
was to rush to the foreman.
"Sir!" said he, gasping for breath,
II can't never set up nothing without
no o's."
What do you mean by that ?"
growled the foreman, who was in a very
ill-humor at being kept up so late.
Why, sir, there beant an o in the
Office, neither big un nor little un"
What-what the ID has become
of all that was in the case?"
IT don't know, sir" said the boy,
h,,i nf Il 1,
bin prowling about here all night, and
spect he's gone and cabbaged en-
every one"
! "Dod rot him! Haven't doubt of
it" replied the foreman, getting purple
with rage" but tell you what you
do, Bob, that's good boy-you go
over the first chance you get and hook
every one of their is and (d-n them y
their lizards"
"Jist so" replied Bob, with wink
and frown-I'll be into EN-, I'll let EN-
know thing or two; but in dc mean
time, that ere paragrab? Mus goin to-
night, you know-else there'll be the
! ID to pay, and"
" And not bit of pitch hot" inter-
rupted the foreman, with deep sigh,
and an emphasis on the "bit." " Is it
a very long paragraph, Bob?'
Shouldn't call it a very long para
grab" said Bob
| /" Ah, we'll, then! do the best you
can with it! we must get to press" said
the foreman, who was over head and
ears in work; "just stick in some other
letter for o, nobody's going to read the
fellows trash, any how"
"Wery well,' replied Bob, "here
goes itr' and off he hurried to his case;
muttering as he went" Considdeble
veil, them ere expressions, perticcler
for man as doesn't swar So is to
gouge out all their eyes, ell and d-n
all their gizzards! Veil! this here's the
chap es is jist able for to do it." The
fact is, that although Bob was but