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'I shell have to x this ere paragrab, said he to himself, as he read it over in astonishment, 'but it's jest about the awfulest o-wy paragrab I ever did see': so x it he did, unflinchingly, and to press it went x-ed. Next morning the population of Nopolis were taken all aback by reading in 'The Tea-Pot, the following extraordinary leader: 'Sx hx, Jxhn! hxw nxw? Txld yxu sx, yxu knxw.
I cannot pretend to give all the 'Tea-Pot's' paragraphs verbatim, but one of them runs thus: 'Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! The editor over the way is a genius O, my! Oh, goodness, gracious! what is this world coming to? Oh, tempora! Oh, Moses! A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis.
So remain he did; and he did more; he unpacked his press, type, etc., etc., rented an office exactly opposite to that of the 'Gazette, and, on the third morning after his arrival, issued the first number of 'The Alexan' that is to say, of 'The Nopolis Tea-Pot' as nearly as I can recollect, this was the name of the new paper. The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant not to say severe.
Bullet-head found himself in Alex-suppose we call it Nopolis, 'for short' but, as he did find himself there, he determined to keep up his character for obst for firmness, and remain.
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