CHAPTER III.
A GROWLER SOOTHED.
Givemfits said to Dr.Butterfield, "You asked me last evening if I ever bought newspapers.

I reply, Yes, and write for them too.
"But I see their degeneracy.

Once you could believe nearly all they said; now he is a fool who believes a tenth part of it.

There is the New York 'Scandalmonger,' and the Philadelphia 'Prestidigitateur,' and the Boston 'Prolific,' which do nothing but hoodwink and confound the public mind.

Ten dollars will get a favorable report of a meeting, or as much will get it caricatured.