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Tit For Tat

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
April
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Allegan Journal find fault with our head - Dcwspaper head - and calis it a poor representation of the state, etc. Ia not Ann Arbor upon the map? "What more does the gentleman ask?" He docsn't seem to be satisfiod with a clean piece of paper. A few days since we came near having serious trouble because of the pro1 " " ' ¦¦ of the Journal in sending out mystenous hieroglypiuu _ specimen sheets of' the Spencerian system itnproved. It was the first of April when a stranger entcred the office and presented a letter. Thinking it might be one of the nuraerous rythmical Communications on spring, just now so abundant, we opened the missive, but were disappointed. The paper contained in that envelope looked as though somebody having the St. Vitus dance had attempted to sketch a lot of chimoey swallows' nestu, cob-webs and spiders' legs, with an occasional line of "rip-gut" fencc, and had had bard work with his sketcbing implcments. RecogQizing the date, and not relishing a fírst of April "gag" from an entire stranger, we were about promptly knocking the man down, and a visión of old Naegley's pickling-vat and #25 stole across our mind, when the stranger stepped forward and blandly inquired if we had decichered the purport of the note? We glarcd at him a moment and then asked him what in Hail Columbia he took us for? A knowing smile, child-like and bland, stole over his features as be realized the situation, and he immediately proceeded to explain that the paper was intended for a chain-lightning letter of introduction from Don Henderson, of the Allegan Journal. We gazed at the document again, noted the printed heading and initials, D. c. h., in one corner, and calmed ourself. After inveigling the gentleman into telling us substantially the contents, we made it all right with him. The letter we have sent to Southworth, tho great Boston expert, to sec if it is not a forgery, and to cstablish the average angles, offering areward of $700 if he finds anything in the heavens above or tbeearth beneath, which it will "superpose upon." If he says it is genuine, we propose to out off the printed heading and send it to the board of regento, with a Chinese postmark, giving them the impression that it is a page from "prexies" Chinese copy book, that they may rejoice over his rapid advancement in Celestial chirography. "Tit for tat," Don. You don't like our head. We don't like your hand.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News