A LADY'S VISIT TO THE PRINT.


ING OFFICE.
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ING OFFICE.
So-you sit there all day and cut out
pieces from the newspapers; | think
should like that, it's so much like patch
work.


Yes, madam, we excissorize some, tho
we are obliged to weave considerable cloth
ourselves. Suppose, you occupy our chair
and give the public ideas of editing pa
per.


Me! goodness | wouldn't sit down
there and write where every body is star
ing at one for the world; writing makes a
person cross. Besides your table is all ink, it
would soil my dress; why don't you have
a nice mahogany table, and white curtains
at the windows? What makes you hang
up these old dirty papers round the room'
II was obliged to stay here, the floor
should be Washed, and carpet laid down;
it must be dreadful 10 live so.


Oh those are our files; we couldn't dis
pense with them very well; and as for car
pet, we fear it would frghten away our
customers.


Dear me; the gentlemen are SO careless
about every thing nice, that | don't think
they are comfortable unless they can have
their rooms all Uttered up. Did you write
all those sheets to-day


Certainly, and we are moi through yet.


Why--it takes me whole day to COM
pose and copy letter. hope you don't
scrawl and blot so when you write TO the
ladies'


We never have that pleasure, madam.


No, aud you don't write for them either,
or you would not print such dry stuff as
you do.


Don't put any thing more about Oregon
and Congress in the paper, will you its SO
dull But what are those men doing in the
other room with their sleeves rolled up,
and making motions as il they were going
to fight Somebody


Those are compositors setting type, you
see they oil have Stick in one hand, and
they place the types in it with the other.


l don't see any sticks, unless you call
those little square pieces of iron so; hat
curious names you have | always tho,
stick was to walk with.


Well, ours make the world walk; those
little boxes that we call cases contain the
letter; and the printers put them together
into words and sentences by the aid Of that
little piece Of iron that youspeak of