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 a wonder they did not fall to fighting! All the letters, from a to z, were nothing but calumny, gossip, dastardly stories,—in fact, each had told the worst about the other! The next day the town was full of it, and there was turmoil and agitation, as if a revolution had broken out! From that day the two hate each other as their sins. And the excitement kept on growing.

“Their husbands took part in it. The doctor and the burgomaster, who had been friends heretofore, transferred the quarrel to the townhall, and into the affairs of the town. The doctor began calling himself a ‘Young Bohemian,’ ,and the burgomaster—an ‘Old Bohemian,’ The doctor started a paper, and in it thundered every two weeks. Naturally the burgomaster, too, vaulted into the saddle, and founded his paper. They are fighting to the knife Speak of angels,—do you see that slender