"Fair Play asks us, if we know of the gambling doings of the
notorious Deuceace? We answer, WE DO; and, in our very next
Number, propose to make some of them public."

. . . . . .

They didn't appear, however; but, on the contry, the very same
newspeper, which had been before so abusiff of Deuceace, was now
loud in his praise. It said:--


"A paragraph was inadvertently admitted into our paper of last
week, most unjustly assailing the character of a gentleman of high
birth and talents, the son of the exemplary E-rl of Cr-bs. We
repel, with scorn and indignation, the dastardly falsehoods of the
malignant slanderer who vilified Mr. De--ce-ce, and beg to offer
that gentleman the only reparation in our power for having thus
tampered with his unsullied name. We disbelieve the RUFFIAN and
HIS STORY, and most sincerely regret that such a tale, or SUCH A
WRITER, should ever have been brought forward to the readers of
this paper."


This was satisfactory, and no mistake: and much pleased we were at
the denial of this conshentious editor. So much pleased that
master sent him a ten-pound noat, and his complymints. He'd sent
another to the same address, BEFORE this parrowgraff was printed;
WHY, I can't think: for I woodn't suppose any thing musnary in a
littery man.