![]() ![]() It was especially bitter about things in general - and as for the editor of ‘The Gazette,’ he was torn all to pieces in particular. The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant - not to say severe. 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. 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. I feel confident he never would have dreamed of taking up his residence in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, had he been aware that, in Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, there lived a gentleman named John Smith (if I rightly remember), who, for many years, had there quietly grown fat in editing and publishing the ‘Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis Gazette.’ It was solely, therefore, on account of having been misinformed, that Mr. ![]() In establishing ‘The Tea-Pot,’ he expected to have the field all to himself. I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the impression that no newspaper, and consequently no editor, existed in that particular section of the country. I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man and the only occasion on which he did not prove infallible, was when, abandoning that legitimate home for all wise men, the East, he migrated to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, out West. It was his strong point - his virtue and it would have required all the logic of a Brownson to convince him that it was ‘anything else.’ ![]() Irascibility was his sole foible for in fact the obstinacy of which men accused him was anything but his foible, since he justly considered it his forte. Bullet-head was a wise man and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it - Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. As it is well known that the ‘wise men’ came ‘from the East,’ and as Mr. ![]()
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