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Ed. (reading aloud). The hoss.—The hoss is a noble animal. He is also interestin’ and knows a good deal. Some folks get very much attached to their hosses. I knowed a Frenchman once, that thought so much of his hoss that he even went so far as to call his own mother a mare as a pet name. Hosses are very interestin’ animals when they don’t rare up. Not havin’ any more to say on this subjick, I will stop.

Ed. (gravely). That is very good; but, on the whole, I don’t think there is any need of an assistant just yet. If there should be a time when I stand in need of one, I will certainly think of you.

E. S. (disappointed). Then you haint got anything for me to do?

Ed. Not just now.

E. S. Then I must go.

(Exit E. S., L.)

(Curtain falls.)

Scene II.—Printing office. Ed., C., looking complacently at a newspaper spread out to its full proportions on the table before him.

Ed. (soliloquizing). And this is the result of my first week’s labor as an editor. Excellent as my friend Clark has heretofore made the “Post,” I think he will acknowledge that I have made some improvements in it. (Glances complacently down the page. His eye is suddenly arrested by a paragraph which startles him.) What! What’s this? (Reads.)