The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-08

bandcrlllo adheres to the bull He
went straight homo and began to
think-a dangerous thing for light
hearted and delightfully."- brainleas man
like George to do; and. worse still,
he went on thinking. ard as a result
OF the novel mental irlitant wrote a
work of fction!" II was-oh, my.
aunt. IL was awful! tic kept It dark
uutl it was produced.-of course, at
the authors expense; and here fol
loweth the deluge Reviews, sarcas-
tic. cynical, openly abusive. poured
| down on Georges curly hair. The
| worst, the most brutal of the notices
was written by L.tt,crord, the quiet
reserved Littleford as honest as -as
iA-singuiar, | can't think of any name
at the moment.--a scholar and an alb
solutely conscientious critic need
not add that he was poor; that fol.
| lows naturally enough The review
appeared in The Scarifcr. and we all
! promptly showed II to GeOrgic some
of us with the truly charitable object
! of checking any further literary eff.
| fort on his part. lie looked rather
rucful, but said nothing drank soda
andwhisky in comparative silence,
and shortly afterward disappeared
Two days later Blossop, with his
back to the flrc. looked round and re-
marked regretfully:
bad bit of business, this of Little,
ford's! Not heard nf it? Really, you
l fn n on nl ttyttI
heads in bushol Baskets"
Some of us require two-bushel
basket" inlcrpola;cd MILAN glarng
significantly at Bloasop, who. after
hurting parcrthctically: "Swelled head
yoursclf!" continued:
Got the order of The sack from
The Scariflea. They're not doing very
we'll, cutting down expenses. and have
tosnd some ono to take on Little
ford's work for. lcos money, I suppose
So the marriage Is put off. Awruliy
pretty gin he's Engaged 70; mot hci
and littlcford feeding the ducks II
the park. told me al about Il mex
day; idyllic story ! wcpt like a child
Yes, he's got the chuck"
There was q muttcred chorus o
"Rcasily shamc." ".tu8t like old Mig
giles, Of the Scarincr; anything to save
shilling," Poor Httlc girl" Not {
had chap. Littlcford though he's ;
monster when he's On the war.path.
Then we passed TO something else
Georgio had sgid nothing
LiClerord appeared at the club mex
day and one of us vcntured to ex
press sympathy. Tic crimsoned ant
lrowncd:
oh it's all right" he said, in hi
curt way; they've taken me on again
for aomc rcascn or other"
''Trcn The marriage will come of
old mani"
NO; future too Uncertain" he re
plicd, shartly; and thcrcupon proceed
ed 10 cut the leaves Of book, prepar
at0ry TO cutting up tho author.
Tine pas scl--G more usefu
phrase than ihisicxis'is, ! can only sa
ihat ! have not tiel" with it--and, In
credible as II may seem, George pre-
duccd another novel, More deluge
The s;caliGcr camc out with a reyiey
which made the hair OF some of u
stand on crd, aud II was slgned--th
rcyicw, not the hair-"Percy LittlC
ford"
Blossom asked him why he ha
stuck his name TO &C. Littleford IT
garded him 2rimIy for moment, an
then replied:
"RecauSc | discovered that it wa
George who got me taken on agair
and--I had to sign It,"
"Oh! We'll, | shouldn't be surprise
If you now get the ultimate chuck,
RlOSsop commented. For sheer sa'
agcry, this article of yours takes tn
freehold OF n biscuit factory"
We all agreed. for once, with Blo
Hop; and our surprise was stupendou
aud paralyzinE when he pranced int
The club the following evening shou
; ing. even, moro loudly than usual
Boys the old Scatilier has change
hands, nAndl--kecp your mouth shu
MILAN; want to tell this standin
, outside lsittlcford has got the ed
, lorial chair. And who do You thin
+ Is the new proprietor? stand tight
Hold on to something! Its-Georgie
Georgia came in before we coul
! avail ourselves of our limited know
edge Of English, and was at ono
> surrounded and threatened with Sc
/, aral painful deaths, lucidly describe
in lurd language, unless he Instant
!, explained. lie looked shy, for the fir!
time in his life, and stammered as h
said:
"Well, II wanted to be somethin
T, In the literary line, like you fellow
in the club; and as the novel bushes
: didn't pan ont very well--thoug
: mind you! ! don't think it was wors
/, than some of the stuff you chaps writ
I Il thought I'd buy paper
| but why, why choose 'Littleford f
. adltor?" he was asked He. Is capab
: enough, of course; but those notice
. Of his!"
!, "Well---I thought I'd like a stragl
i. up-and,dOwn chap
5 "No man can be straight and q
editor at the same time, you blithe