CHAPTER VI.
_THE EDITOR OF THE PATRIOT_.
The editor of the village paper, _The Patriot and Advertiser_, is Major Slott; and a very clever journalist he is.

Even his bitterest adversary, the editor of _The Evening Mail_, in the town above us on the river, admits that.

In the last political campaign, indeed, _The Mail_ undertook to tell how it was that the major acquired such a taste for journalism.

The story was that shortly after he was born the doctor ordered that the baby should be fed upon goat's milk.

This was procured from a goat that was owned by an Irish woman who lived in the rear of the office of _The Weekly Startler_ and fed her goat chiefly upon the exchanges which came to that journal.