In a few weeks we must leave it and go back to the city, whereas, had we established our paper in New York--" "Then it never would have been heard of," interrupted practical Beth.
"In New York, Patsy dear, we would become the laughing stock of the town.

I shudder when I think what a countrified paper we turned out that first issue." "But we are fast becoming educated," declared Patsy.

"I'm not ashamed of the _Tribune_ now, even in comparison with the best New York dailies." Beth laughed, but Uncle John said judicially: "For Millville, it's certainly a marvel.

I get the world news more concisely and more pleasantly from its four pages than when I wade through twenty or thirty of the big pages of a metropolitan newspaper.
You are doing famously, my dears.

I congratulate you." "But we are running behind dreadfully," suggested Arthur, the bookkeeper, "even since Thursday Smith enabled us to cut down expenses so greatly.