Lor', miss, I wouldn't take on if I was you, you'd soon get accustomed to it if you had a desk at an office like this.

In at the births, and in at the deaths am I, and I don't make no count of one or t'other.

Why, now, there was _The Stranger_--which went in for pictorial get up, and was truly elegant--it only lasted six months; and there was _The Ocean Wave_, which did not even live as long.

And there was _Merrie Lassie_--oh, their names is legion.

We'll have another started in no time.