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He will bring up out of the sea of his memory that same short, matter-of-fact recital. The rural interviewers, unused to the needs of the city service faithful to the sources of their news finish the concise tale. It covers a quarter of a column. That will never do for Corkey's paper. He knows it well. He reaches Wiarton. He hurries to the telegraph office. He buys a half-dozen tales of the sea.
Meantime the telegraph operator at Wiarton at Corkey's order has been sending the Covode Investigation from an antique copy of the "Congressional Globe." There is an office rule that dispatches must take their turn on the file. The four interviewers have filed their accounts and their accounts will be sent after the Covode Investigation.
They indignantly throw it in the waste-basket, cut off the correspondents by telegraph, and proceed hurriedly to re-write the front page of their exemplar. The able editor comes down the next day and writes a leader on the great shipwrecks of past times, the raft scene and the heroism of Corkey. Corkey and his mascot are still at Wiarton.
When Corkey's dispatch is ready he joins it to a sheet of the Covode Investigation, and therefore the operator has been busy on one dispatch all the time. The night editor of Corkey's paper begins getting the Covode Investigation from Wiarton. He enjoins the foreman to start more type-setters. Reprint copy is freely set all night, and at dawn the real stuff begins to arrive. "Appalling Calamity.
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