Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-02-12


leanin bak in our sanktum, chawin in
jin-rubber, ruminatin on the delites Of
our new situashun, and wonderin in
kase brother Bagly shood also take a
vacashun and leave US, as he'd ben
talkin to us to edit his paper also, how
we would manage to keep up bekum-
in sparit of animosity between the too
oppisishun Origins, when a tall form
drest in cape and boots stalkt into the
room without any seremony whatever
and said:
car you the editur?"
Not doubted it waZ som one com to
subscribe for the STANDARD, we had
seezed on our pen on hearin the First
step at the dore and waz ritin at furi-
us rate when the stranger kan in
Without looking up, we sed in pat
ronisin way:
We are. Ha ar yo?"
81 am Ally Cory" he replid, and hev
small akount to to settle with yu."
The name wasn't familyer, and as thar
was suthun sturn and gratin in the vols
which told US intooitively ther war no
muny in the transakshun we RACED our
self to take in the stranger who had
thus interrupted our medetashuns.
1t war evident that he war no ordi-
nary parsonage, fur instead of qualin
beneath our glance, he cum boldly
forward and takin off his leather spek-
ticles and long paper nose laid them
on our table He he'd no he'd; and
what war still more feerful, we diskiv.
cred the end of long black snake whip
train behind him like tale. This
lookt as if he ment mischief We are
no fling man, and even if we were our
Salutary want justify US in exposen the
only dependence of large family to
eny desperate risks. And so, when we
had taken in the sitashun and seed that
the window was shut, we continued, as
eff we had not hearn his last remark.
"We ar not the editor of this paper.
"Then," he asked, car yu an asso
shiated editur?'
This word braut TO our mind the
dredful war, which has long convuIsed
the kummunity betwixt the Exc and the
associated press, and which we thaut
was settled when we tux our presant
situashun, and the bisness of the
stranger past on our mind like of a
flash of litenin. Ally Cory wus un.
doutedly kun to revenge the ropgs the
associated press had heeped on the Ebc
His karakter wus evident and in spite
of his sented handkerchief we could now
smell brimstun distinctly.
owe ar nun OF them kattle," sed we
tremblin in our boots. Then thinkin o.
brother Bagly, we continued, "but thai
is wun of them up stares, and if yu'l
waite mint we'll bring him in.
We hev no pursonal grudge agil
brother Bagly, but we thaut that i
eny wun had to be hors-whipt, it.wu;
my dooty as the leeder protein of the
Democracy to turn it over to the oppo
sishun; and so, without stopin to here
whether he wuz willir to waite or not, VIC
vakated the Sanktum ourselves as well
as we Good after SIGH skare, informed
brother Bagly thar war a stranger il
our Sanktum hu had an old ackount tc
settle with him, and which he wul
watin to pay with kom pound intrust
That war enough. Brother Bagly
hu has an to bisness lost no time il
rpsbin down stares; whilst We, with
luther motives was in just as big hur.
ry 10 get int the bosom of our family
As we turned the first korner we hurd
a wild shreek of despare, and that woke
us up to find the miserable offs imr
burnin matches under our nose and
| hollerin.
"Mr. Posey; Mr.. Posey, we're outir
copy"
HOME AaAN.--We returned from q
brief visit to Kalama just as this issue
of the paper went to press, and con.
sequently were unable to give il