"SARAH WINKLETOP."
II.
"YONKERS, N. Y.
"Our Uncle Willie in New York sends us _Nursery
Days_ every week. We like it immensely, and every
one tries to get the first reading of it. "Tommy
and the Huckleberry-tree" is a splendid story.
Papa bought six copies of _Nursery Days_ with that
in it to send to my little cousins in England.
"JIMMIE CONWAY RHODES."
Others were more laudatory of Partington's story, some less so, but each
demanded more of his work.
These written, Partington made arrangements to have them posted from the
various towns wherein they were ostensibly written, and then, when they
had been posted, he chuckled slightly and sat down to await
developments.
It took a trifle over one week for developments to develop, and then
they developed rapidly. Just eight days after his conception of this
magnificent scheme the postman whistled at Partington's door and left
this note:
"OFFICE OF NURSERY DAYS,
"NEW YORK, _March_ 16, 1889.
"_Richard Partington Smithers, Esq_.:
"DEAR SIR,--Can you call upon me some afternoon this week? Yours truly,
"THOMAS JACKSON TORPYHUE,
"Editor _Nursery Days_."
"The bait is good, and I'll land the fish at once," said Partington, his
face wreathing with smiles. "I'll call upon Mr. Thomas Jackson Torpyhue."
And call he did. Two hours later he entered the sanctum of the editor of
_Nursery Days_.
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