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! I want you to write the pathetic story for the Christmas number, if you will, old man," said the editor of the Weekly Journal to me, as I poked my head into his den one sunny July morning, some years ago. "Thomas is anxious to have the comic sketch. He says he overheard a joke last week, that he thinks he can work up. I expect I shall