Their editor had been raised on a weekly, and had been used to goin' to sleep at eight o'clock in the evening.

The rumor spread that a metropolitan journalist had fallen out of a balloon into their midst.

That morning's paper was two days late.

So I just went in and went to work.
I sent every one else home to bed, and sat down to write the paper.
"Of course, I began with dogs, for on account of my early trainin' I knew more about that.

Two columns of dogs as a Local Industry.