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proofs are made before fitting in the illustrations. 

 This is done by a boy with shears, who cuts 

 chunks out of the print to make room for the 

 pictures. One publication looks upon the text 

 as a necessary evil and doesn't care if it goes in 

 upside down, but spreads itself upon the illustra- 

 tions. 



The illustrated magazines containing our work 

 are published from New York to New Zealand 

 and include the best known of New York and 

 London, while the published articles run into the 

 hundreds. Sometimes we receive a foreign mag- 

 azine containing a story of ours in a language 

 which we cannot read and although the sensation 

 is queer it is not unpleasant. 



An unearned increment comes to writer and 

 illustrator in the genial atmosphere of the maga- 

 zine office and the charming, sometimes spicy, 

 correspondence with the wielder of the blue 

 pencil. 



Not the least of the pleasures of writing is 

 that it can be conducted amid surroundings far 

 removed from the fevered atmosphere of the Ex- 



