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Show 1 -i 1 1 Tlio Editor. 1 'The following is a schoolboy's idea: of ' an editor : "The editor is -one of the happiest animals in ; : ' the world. He can go to the ' 4 circus afternoon and evening without , ? i paying a cent, also to inquests and ' hangings.. He has tickets to picnics' and strawberryjestivals, gets wedd- : ing cake sent to him, and sometimes ; gets. a licking, but not oftep, for. he can take things back in the next ' issue, which he generally,, does. I '-never '-never knew but one editor ' to get' V f lickt. -His paper busted 'that day : -i and he couldn't take anything back. While other. folks has gone to bed early, the editor. can sit up late at night and see all that is going on. When I am a man I mean to be an editor, so I can stay out " late at nights. Then that will be bully. The editor don't have to saw wood . j or do any chopping, except with his - . scissors. Railroads get up excursi-onsorhim, excursi-onsorhim, knowing that if they didn't he'd make them, . In polities -he don't care much who he goes for if they arc on his side. If 'they ain't he goes for them anyway, so it amounts to about the same thing. There are a great many people trying try-ing to be'editors who can't and some of them have been in the profession for years. If I was asked if I had rather have an education or be a circus, I wguhl ?ay, let me be ap editor. Ex. |