A TRUE JOURNALIST.
It was the new reporter who had come in, covered with perspiration and dust, as the last forms went down to press. ' Did it take all day to do that Park Water Works detail ?' snarled the city editor. ' S-s-sh ! speak low,' whispered the new 'special ' in the C. E,'s ear. < Grot, on to an Al suicide out on the Park — defalcation probably.' ' Great Csesar ! and we've gone to press, ' gasped the editor. 'The afternoon papers will get a beat on us to-morrow.' ' Not much !' chuckled the reporter. ' I knew I couldn't get here in time for the last edition, so I just queered the find.' ' What do you mean ?' ' Why, I dragged the body into the bushes and covered it up with grass and things. A bloodhound couldn't find it. To-morrow we develop the claim and give 'em a two-column, sensation.' With tears in his eyes the city editor srose and fell upon his subordinate's neck. ' You are an honor to your profession,' he sobbed. ' I'll see that your salary is increased to $2 a month-. I will, by jingo !'•
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 345, 18 July 1885, Page 22
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203A TRUE JOURNALIST. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 345, 18 July 1885, Page 22
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