A hot axle! Literary men have great opportunities opening in this day.

If they take all that open, they are dead men, or worse, living men who ought to be dead.
The pen runs so easy when you have good ink, and smooth paper, and an easy desk to write on, and the consciousness of an audience of one, two or three hundred thousand readers.

There are the religious newspapers through which you preach, and the musical journals through which you may sing, and the agricultural periodicals through which you can plough, and family newspapers in which you may romp with the whole household around the evening stand.

There are critiques to be written, and reviews to be indulged in, and poems to be chimed, and novels to be constructed.

When out of a man's pen he can shake recreation, and friendship, and usefulness, and bread, he is apt to keep it shaking.