editor. I could write a better paper on my head, but an editor is not
allowed to write all the paper. It is very hard, but he is not. You
just have to fill up with what you can get from other writers. If I
ever have time I will write a paper all by myself. It won't be patchy.
We had no time to make it an illustrated paper, but I drew the ship
going down with all hands for the first copy. But the typewriter can't
draw ships, so it was left out in the other copies. The time the first
paper took to write out no one would believe! This was the Newspaper:

THE LEWISHAM RECORDER

EDITORS: DORA AND OSWALD BASTABLE

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EDITORIAL NOTE

Every paper is written for some reason. Ours is because we want to sell
it and get money. If what we have written brings happiness to any sad
heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too.
Many papers are content with the sad heart and the happiness, but we are
not like that, and it is best not to be deceitful. EDITORS.

There will be two serial stories; One by Dicky and one by all of us. In
a serial story you only put in one chapter at a time. But we shall put
all our serial story at once, if Dora has time to copy it. Dicky's will
come later on.

SERIAL STORY
BY US ALL