Peter almost got the reputation of a wit on that one joke, merely because it came after a serious harangue, and happened to be quotable.

Blunkers was so pleased with the end of the speech that he got Peter to write it out, and to this day the "thank you" part of the address, in Peter's neat handwriting, handsomely framed, is to be seen in Blunkers's saloon.
Peter also did a little writing this summer.

He had gone to see three or four of the reporters, whom he had met in "the case," to get them to write up the Food and Tenement subjects, wishing thereby to stir up public feeling.

He was successful to a certain degree, and they not merely wrote articles themselves, but printed three or four which Peter wrote.

In two cases, he was introduced to "staff" writers, and even wrote an editorial, for which he was paid fifteen dollars.