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expression has its inconveniences, and a man is liable to interruption. You see 

 that yourself. Vigorous writing is calculated to elevate the public, no doubt, but, 

 then I do not like to attract so much attention as it calls forth. I can't write with 

 comfort when I am interrupted so much as I have been to-day. I like this berth 

 well enough, but I don't like to be left here to wait on the customers. The 

 experiences are novel, I grant you, and entertaining too, after a fashion, but they 

 are not judiciously distributed. A gentleman shoots at you through the window 

 and cripples me/ a bomb-shell comes down the stove-pipe for your gratification 

 and sends the stove-door down my throat ; a friend drops in to swap compliments 

 ■with you, and freckles me with bullet-holes till my skin won't hold my principles; 

 you go to dinner, and Jones comes with his cowhide, Gillespie throws me out of 



