Psmith Journalist

ust parting from a thick-set young man, who seemed to be expressing his grat

d aside to

chum, Comrade Wi

as Kid

miliar to me. Ano

ng. He wants to fight any one in the wor

rs to have selected a somewhat exciting one.

It's always the way in this rotten East," continued Billy, warming up as was his custom when discussing a case of oppression and injustice. "It's all graft here. You've got to let half a dozen brutes dip

_ shall be Comrade Brady's manager. We will give him a much-needed boost up in

l require still more will be a fighting-editor.

lows. Comrades Asher, Philpotts, and others. I have jus

un

ese things must be. We must clench our teeth and face them manfully. If I were you, I think I should not drop in at the house of Comrade A

t min

I may say

the price of that lunch to the off

me. I have few pleasures. Comrade Asher alone was worth the money. I found his society intensel

ner office. Psmith re

ses to exist. In his place we find Psmith the hard-headed sub-editor. Be so goo

sat down, an

agazine_. They didn't amount to a row of beans till Lawson started his 'Frenzied Finance' articles. Directly they began, the wh

heme which may not prove wholly scaly. Wandering yesterday with Comrade Jackson in a s

indsor

twice when I was a report

astly place. We went i

e prett

owns

re. Those tenement houses are about as

er tried to do any

lt to get at these fellows, you see. But t

the precise difficulty of

to do is to clear out all the families but two. Then, when the inspector fellow comes along, and says, let's say, 'Where's your running water on each floor? That's what the law says you've got to have, and here are these people having to go downstairs and out

smith. "A very

first place to some corporation or other. They lease it to a lessee. When there's a fuss, they say they aren't responsible, it's up to the lessee. And he lies so low that yo

ry of the lessee, lad? Surely a powerful organ like _Cosy Moments

yway. There's no knowing b

highly interesting fact about an egg. What that was, I do not at the moment recall, but it bucked Columbus up like a tonic. It made him fizz ahead like a two-year-old. The facts which will nerve us to effort are two. In the first place, we

. "Which of us is going to

kind of invective?' queried the man up top. 'No,' replied our hero, 'just general invective.' Such is my own case, Comrade Windsor. I am a very fair purveyor of good, general invective. And as my visit to Pleasant Street is of such recent date, I am tolerably full of my subject. Taking full advantage of the benevolent laws of this