Into this funereal performance our printer's apprentice entered with pick and spade.

He had thus early a _penchant_ for controversy, a soldier's scent for battle.

If there was any fighting going on he proceeded directly to have a hand in it.

And it cannot be denied that that hand was beginning to deal some manly and sturdy blows, whose resound was heard quite distinctly beyond the limits of his birthplace.

His communications appeared now, not only in the _Herald_, but in the Salem _Gazette_ as well.