Psmith Journalist
ust parting from a thick-set young man, who seemed to be expressing his grat
d aside to
chum, Comrade Wi
as Kid
miliar to me. Ano
ng. He wants to fight any one in the wor
rs to have selected a somewhat exciting one.
It's always the way in this rotten East," continued Billy, warming up as was his custom when discussing a case of oppression and injustice. "It's all graft here. You've got to let half a dozen brutes dip
_ shall be Comrade Brady's manager. We will give him a much-needed boost up in
l require still more will be a fighting-editor.
lows. Comrades Asher, Philpotts, and others. I have jus
un
ese things must be. We must clench our teeth and face them manfully. If I were you, I think I should not drop in at the house of Comrade A
t min
I may say
the price of that lunch to the off
me. I have few pleasures. Comrade Asher alone was worth the money. I found his society intensel
ner office. Psmith re
ses to exist. In his place we find Psmith the hard-headed sub-editor. Be so goo
sat down, an
agazine_. They didn't amount to a row of beans till Lawson started his 'Frenzied Finance' articles. Directly they began, the wh
heme which may not prove wholly scaly. Wandering yesterday with Comrade Jackson in a s
indsor
twice when I was a report
astly place. We went i
e prett
owns
re. Those tenement houses are about as
er tried to do any
lt to get at these fellows, you see. But t
the precise difficulty of
to do is to clear out all the families but two. Then, when the inspector fellow comes along, and says, let's say, 'Where's your running water on each floor? That's what the law says you've got to have, and here are these people having to go downstairs and out
smith. "A very
first place to some corporation or other. They lease it to a lessee. When there's a fuss, they say they aren't responsible, it's up to the lessee. And he lies so low that yo
ry of the lessee, lad? Surely a powerful organ like _Cosy Moments
yway. There's no knowing b
highly interesting fact about an egg. What that was, I do not at the moment recall, but it bucked Columbus up like a tonic. It made him fizz ahead like a two-year-old. The facts which will nerve us to effort are two. In the first place, we
. "Which of us is going to
kind of invective?' queried the man up top. 'No,' replied our hero, 'just general invective.' Such is my own case, Comrade Windsor. I am a very fair purveyor of good, general invective. And as my visit to Pleasant Street is of such recent date, I am tolerably full of my subject. Taking full advantage of the benevolent laws of this