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What next?' 'Now your laugh,' said I. 'And while you are at it,
make it a scream!' 'All right,' he said, 'I haven't anything funny in yet,
but I'll get it. Now show me where you want these spaced.' So I showed
him, and every single time you look, you'll see Mr. _Herald_ is made up
that way, and you ought to hear me trolling out that Belgian line, soft
and easy, snapping in the graft quicklike, and then yelling out the
scream. You bet it catches them! If I can't get that kid on to his job,
'spect I'll have to take it back myself; least if he can't get on, he's
doomed to get off. I gave him a three days' try, and if he doesn't catch
by that time, he never will."
"But how are you going to know?" asked Douglas.
"I'm going down early and follow him and drill him like a Dutch recruit,
and he'll wake up my men, and interest them and fetch the laugh or he'll
stop!"
"You think you got a fair price?" asked Douglas.
"Know it! All it's worth, and it looks like a margin to me," said Mickey.
"That's all right then, and thank you for telling me about the papers,"
said Douglas.


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