. St. Nicholas [serial] . .Get them up real stylish—red ink, perhaps ; orPatsy in black and Rafferty in red; somethingthat 11 please him. And Ned immediately set upthe name in Tuscan, to see how it would look. Itlooked like this : MR. PATSY RAFFXRTY, XSQ. How do you think he d like that, done in twocolors ? said Ned. I dont believe he d care much about it, said If thats all that ails it, said Ned, it s easyenough to take off the handle and tail, and hetook them off. Patsy took another look at it. That s not exactly the way I spell my name,said he. There ought to be an E there, insteadofanX. Of
. St. Nicholas [serial] . .Get them up real stylish—red ink, perhaps ; orPatsy in black and Rafferty in red; somethingthat 11 please him. And Ned immediately set upthe name in Tuscan, to see how it would look. Itlooked like this : MR. PATSY RAFFXRTY, XSQ. How do you think he d like that, done in twocolors ? said Ned. I dont believe he d care much about it, said If thats all that ails it, said Ned, it s easyenough to take off the handle and tail, and hetook them off. Patsy took another look at it. That s not exactly the way I spell my name,said he. There ought to be an E there, insteadofanX. Of course there ought, said Ned, but yousee we have nt any Es in that style of type, andit s an old-established rule in all printing-officesthat when there s a letter you have nt got, yousimply put an X in place of it. Everybody under-stands it. 474 PHAETON ROGERS. [April, I didnt understand it, said Patsy, and Ithink my name looks better when it s spelled theway I was christened. All right! said Ned. We 11 make it as you. NED S PLAN FOR A PRESS. want it; but it 11 have to be set in some other kindof type, and that Tuscan is the prettiest thing inthe office. Patsy still preferred correctness to beauty, andhad his way. And now what color will you have ? said can print it in black, or red, or blue, orpartly one color and partly another—almost anycolor, in fact. Patsy, true to the tradition of his ancestors, chosegreen. I m awful sorry, said Ned, but we have ntany green ink. It s about the only color wehave nt got. You can make it by mixing blue and yellowtogether, said Patsy. True, said Ned; but the fact is, we have ntany yellow. Green and yellow are about the onlycolors we have nt got. After studying the problem a few minutes, Patsychose to have his visiting-cards printed in alternatered and blue letters, and we set about it at once,Ned arranging the types, while I took the part ofdevil and managed the ink. As they were to bein two colors, of course each card had to go
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