In the Appendix I have quoted a good letter, penned by a trained hand; but the average correspondent hurls a style which differs from that.

For instance-- The 'Times-Democrat' sent a relief-steamer up one of the bayous, last April.

This steamer landed at a village, up there somewhere, and the Captain invited some of the ladies of the village to make a short trip with him.

They accepted and came aboard, and the steamboat shoved out up the creek.

That was all there was 'to it.' And that is all that the editor of the 'Times-Democrat' would have got out of it.