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Show THE BOY ON EDITORS. A little boy was given the stunt by his father to -write an essay on editors, edi-tors, and here is the result: "I don't know how newspapers come to bo In the world. I don't think God does, for He hain't got nothin' to say about them and editors in the Bible. I think tho editor is one of the missing miss-ing links you read of, and stayed In the bushes until after the flood; and then came out and wrote the thing up, and has been here over since. I don't I think he over dies. I never saw a dead one and never heard of one getting get-ting licked. Our paper is a mighty good one; but the editor goes without underclothes all winter and don't wear any socks, and paw ain't paid his subscription sub-scription slnco the paper started. I ast paw If that was why the editor had to suck jubo out of snowballs In tho winter and go to bed when he had a shirt washed in the auramer. And then paw took mo out into the woodshed wood-shed and llckt me awful hard. If the editor makes a mistake folks say he ought to be hung; but if a doctor makes any mistakes he buries them and people dasent say nothing because be-cause doctors can read and write Latin. When tho editor makes a mistake, mis-take, there is lawsuits and a big fuss; but if a doctor makes one there is a funeral, cut flowers and perfek silence. si-lence. A doctor can use a word a yard long without him or anybody knowing what it means; but if editors uses one he has to spelllt. If tho doctor goes to see another man's wife, he charges for tho visit; "but if the editor goeB he gets a charge of buckshot. When the doctor gets drunk it's a case of being overcome by the heat, and if ho dies it's from heart trouble; -when an editor gets drunk it's a case of too much booze and if he dies it's the Jim jams. Any college can make a doctor; an editor has to be born." Ex. |