“You was goin’ to find out,” says I.
“So I was.... So I was,” says he.
“And you,” says I to Tecumseh Androcles, “you quit botherin’ him. He’s busy. See if it hain’t catchin’.”
Well, sir, you should have seen Tecumseh go to work. He could work, too, and knew just what he was doing. He set every one of us doing something, and it didn’t seem like ten minutes, though it must have been an hour or so, when Mark came out with some paper in his hand.
“Here’s the hand-bill,” says he. “Tecumseh Androcles, can you s-s-set this up so’s it’ll look strikin’?”
“Give it to me, young man, and you shall see. Ah, you shall see.”
So Tecumseh went to work and in no time had the thing set up. He fixed it so it would go on the job press and then we began printing it. Just let me tell you it was a jim-dandy. This is how it went:
THE WICKSVILLE “TRUMPET”
IS GOING TO TOOT
New Editor, New Management
New Policy, New Everything
First Toot Thursday