Show from the uncle sam NO KOOS OS BV BT SIDNEY 1 N I 1 am about to impart to you gentle reader in confidence a misfortune of an unusual character an accident which will make you smile as it fell to my lot but would have made y you ou laugh on the othet side of your mouth if you had yourself been its victim there is a certain journal in circulation dedicated expressly to the theatres theartres the atres and the movements 0 of f the flags the columns of which are filled with theatrical advertisements and the diamatis dramatis dra drai matis natis persons pm some of each representation there was much wisdom in the observation of M air when a man finds that he cant pay his ha rent he ought to live in his own household whether the journal was or was not notable able to pay its printer I 1 cannot take upon me ine to decide Q but at all events it purchased a printing office not a handsome new glittering first rate printing office but a secondhand second hand affair made up of me sweepings and reface of other offices the press was asthmatic from age and exhaust exhaustion iou the type were worn out and broken rs without a cross es as without a hoid head and a inas of shapeless cripp crippled and incomplete hieroglyphics one of these roo as the principal editor was bibily occupied in tile the important duty of preparing his pylle bylle copy Hie foreman made his appearance pate pale wo ani and b big g with some mysterious cerious and awful secret requesting a private conference he addressed his principal to th this is effect I 1 we abal I 1 not be able to get the paper oil out t to day sit sir there are souls some infernal scoundrels in the world the matter now pray A parcel of worthless scum what do you mean thieves where are you driving people without delicacy honor or principle how now enemies of the press rood good heaven what is the matter I 1 iconoclasts of thought vandals who set their face 9 11 against ll list the I 1 for gercys sake explain 1 they have clandestinely surreptitiously feloniously and introduced themselves into the printing office and stolen all the os out odthe of the case the case of oa as what every one they left os as enough to set one what is to be done why every time an 0 occurs you must put another letter in its ita place lace at haphazard hap hazard we must rely upon the subject of the words to make out the sense sene 1 A p pi decious affair we shall make of it I 1 fear mir air 1 in the meantime carry this note to mr our dramatic critic MY mr DEAR I 1 am waiting the remarks respecting the piece that was played yesterday evening sit at the thettie the heat itie e plea aleke e send it me as ad quick as practicable dress them up with that taste elegance elegance wit a and nd fancy which tt inch charac characterize thy pen and sprinkle them with attic sat gait adieu P S somebody has stolen the case of ofos as out of the office and I 1 send you the note above written without an a 0 in it in order to show you how easy it is to shake off the yoke of the missing letter my dear friend do try and avoid the introduction or atall at nil events the multiplication of 0 in in your our forthcoming article excuse my thy ay in ins Z you in my botet note but I 1 could not insert the word you on account of the want of ofos as two hours afterward the anxiously expected article cn maile ido its appearance enclosed in in the following epistle genius can never recognize or submit to any lestric goiri bioni and I 1 will not clip the wings of my imaginations angel herewith you have my article I 1 must decline mutilating it or becoming so outrageously a 0 ssi vorous the paragraph commenced in this way on monday was performed the opera of cosimo accor dinato ding to order be before fore the sovereign of the french king leopold the dukes of nemours nemour and joinville chollet according to custom acted with prodigious power his boire aice on this occasion seemed endowed with more than common melody anelo ly I 1 et etc cete etc in n the next publication of the journal the foregoing ar tide thus figured Hn Manday was va performed per farmed the sf accor ding tp ader beffre the sovereign agthe french king lehfeld Leh Leb the 11 likes dukes rind janville ac carding td custom acted with power hi his voice rn this peca seemed endowed with mire than cemment cei ninen meaddy 9 etc the above circumstance really occurred |