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'Ah, _you_!--that's all very well,' replied Sponge, 'for you, squatting
comfortably in your arm-chair: but consider me, toiling with my pen,
bothered with the writing, and craning at the spelling.'
'Never mind, we've done it,' replied Jack, adding, 'Puff'll be as pleased
as Punch. We've polished him off uncommon. That's just the sort of account
to tickle the beggar. He'll go riding about the country, showing it to
everybody, and wondering who wrote it.'
'And what shall we send it to?--the _Sporting Magazine_, or what?' asked
Sponge.
'_Sporting Magazine!_--no,' replied Jack; 'wouldn't be out till next
year--quick's the word in these railway times. Send it to a
newspaper--_Bell's Life_, or one of the Swillingford papers. Either of them
would be glad to put it in.'
'I hope they'll be able to read it,' observed Sponge, looking at the
blotched and scrawled manuscript.
'Trust them for that,' replied Jack, adding, 'If there's any word that
bothers them, they've nothing to do but look in the dictionary--these folks
all have dictionaries, wonderful fellows for spellin'.


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