"Quad's odds"; . OLD FRISKET. jjUj^N central Michigan, many years ago, an old bachelorTIC who may be spoken of here as Frisket, because hehas long been dead, published a small paper calledthe Herald. There was only a small amount of job-work,Frisket didnt write to exceed a column per week, and theoffice force consisted of himself and a white-headed boyabout twelve years old, who swept out, rolled the forms, and made himselfso generally usefulthat he receivedseventy-five centsper week for hisservices. Frisket was good-natured, lazy, likedwhisky, and he ful-ly realized the factthat the Herald ha
"Quad's odds"; . OLD FRISKET. jjUj^N central Michigan, many years ago, an old bachelorTIC who may be spoken of here as Frisket, because hehas long been dead, published a small paper calledthe Herald. There was only a small amount of job-work,Frisket didnt write to exceed a column per week, and theoffice force consisted of himself and a white-headed boyabout twelve years old, who swept out, rolled the forms, and made himselfso generally usefulthat he receivedseventy-five centsper week for hisservices. Frisket was good-natured, lazy, likedwhisky, and he ful-ly realized the factthat the Herald hada very slim chanceof winning a nation-al reputation underhis editorial man-offick force. agement. It had a circulation of two hundred or such a figure, subscriberspaid in wood, potatoes, sheep-pelts, store orders, and 249. 250 A PUT UP JOB. promises, and Frisket was as contented as the editor ofthe London Times. There were half a dozen young jours working in a towna dozen miles away, and as they all knew Frisket, and knewthat he would get drunk whenever opportunity offered, theyput up a job on him. His paper was issued Mondays, andhe worked off the first side, or the first and fourth pages,Saturday. Sunday morning the jours chartered a wagon
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