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Updated: May 6, 2025
"What station?" "I left the train at Blankville Junction." The city editor dated the copy with a big black pencil, ran three strokes the length of each sheet, wrote a very long and startling head over it and thrust it into the hands of a waiting boy. "Copy-cutter," he said. And as the boy sped off the editor turned to Tom. "How'd you do it?" he asked, frowning tremendously.
This man put a mysterious-looking blue mark on the first page of Larry's story. This was to identify it later, and to make sure that all the succeeding pages would be kept together. Then the sheet was handed to the first of a long line of compositors, who were standing in front of the desk of the "copy-cutter," as he is called.
There are bunches of heads rising over the cases in eager inquiry. "Corkey's sneeze killed him!" says Slug I. "Glad of it," growls one cross dog. "Glad of it," growls another cross dog "Glad of it," goes from alley to alley about the broad floor. "Who's got 48 X?" inquires the man with the last piece of copy. It is the end of Corkey's obituary. "This will be a scoop," says the copy-cutter.
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