And I wrote it with so much pride and pleasure!" I could think of nothing but how to console him.

"O, I daresay it's all right," said I."I know you meant it kindly, and you would be sure to do it in good taste." "That you may swear to," he cried.

"It's a pure, bright, A number 1 paper; the St.Jo _Sunday Herald_.

The idea of the series was quite my own; I interviewed the editor, put it to him straight; the freshness of the idea took him, and I walked out of that office with the contract in my pocket, and did my first Paris letter that evening in Saint Jo.

The editor did no more than glance his eye down the headlines.