cations addressed to the
Home office would be promptly answered."

"Well, of all the impudence," laughed Fred. "The puppy should be
whipped--and I've a great mind to go and do it"

"I don't see any thing to be enraged at," I replied, coolly. "Because he
says that we are to enter the police force, does not make it so; and as
for the rest of his remarks, you are too good an American not to think
highly of the man for his ingenious effort to create popularity for his
favorite office-holder."

Fred smiled as he thought of the freedom of the press in our country,
and I heard no more about whipping the unfortunate editor of the Herald.

"Come," cried Smith, who had sat silent during our reading of the
papers, "you must be getting ready for your visit to the governor. He
receives at three, and dines about six."

"I suppose we shall have to stop and dine with him," said Fred, with a
sly wink at me.

"You surely don't think of such a thing?" demanded Smith, with horror
depicted upon his face.

"Why, you don't pretend to say that the governor is any better than us
poor adventurers?" asked Fred.

Smith struggled a moment with his feelings, as though trying to find a
suitable reply in which he should not offend us, and yet not outrage the
exalted idea which he entertained respecting his excellency. At length
love for us overcame his reverence, and he blubbered out.--"Hang it, you
know what I mean--the governor is placed in a high position, but I'd
rather have a shake of your hands than fifty men like him. Don't talk to
me any more, but get ready to visit him; and if he don't ask you to
dinner, all that I can say is, he don't know you as well as I do."

We followed the advice of Smith without a word of remonstrance, and in a
short time our long, ragged beards had fallen before the sharp edges of
our razors, and after a refreshing bath in a tub, the only bathing-pan
we could find in the city, we dressed ourselves in our new clothes, and
once more felt that clean linen was more becoming to gentlemen, in spite
of its democracy, than blue flannel.

For the first time for many months were our limbs encased in
broad-cloth, and our feet denied the privilege of an extended range of
sole leather. Smith surveyed us, and rubbed his hands with delight. We
had evidently made an impression upon him in our new dresses, and to
tell the truth, we felt somewhat vain of it.

Punctual to the hour, we heard some one drive up to the door, an