As Fulkerson said, Beaton had caught on with the delicacy of a humming-bird and the tenacity of a bulldog to the virtues of their illustrative process, and had worked it for all it was worth.
There were seven papers in the number, and a poem on the last page of the cover, and he had found some graphic comment for each.

It was a larger proportion than would afterward be allowed, but for once in a way it was allowed.

Fulkerson said they could not expect to get their money back on that first number, anyway.

Seven of the illustrations were Beaton's; two or three he got from practised hands; the rest were the work of unknown people which he had suggested, and then related and adapted with unfailing ingenuity to the different papers.

He handled the illustrations with such sympathy as not to destroy their individual quality, and that indefinable charm which comes from good amateur work in whatever art.