"I work hard I know, but I feel paid by the satisfaction of finding that my labors are appreciated." "When Mr.Anderson gets back, he will find it necessary to employ you as assistant editor, for it won't do to let the paper get back to its former dulness." "I will accept," said Harry, "if he makes the offer.

I feel more and more that I must be an editor." "You are certainly showing yourself competent for the position." "I have only made a beginning," said our hero, modestly.

"In time I think I could make a satisfactory paper." One day, about two months after Mr.Anderson's departure, Ferguson and Harry were surprised, and not altogether agreeably, by the entrance of John Clapp and Luke Harrison.

They looked far from prosperous.

In fact, both of them were decidedly seedy.