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People said of the new journal, Good Humour—people of taste and judgment1, that it was the brightest, the cleverest, the most literary penny weekly that ever had been offered to the public. This made Peter Hope, editor and part-proprietor3, very happy. William Clodd, business manager, and also part-proprietor, it left less elated.
“Must be careful,” said William Clodd, “that we don’t make it too clever. Happy medium, that’s the ideal.”
People said—people of taste and judgment, that Good Humour was more worthy5 of support than all the other penny weeklies put together. People of taste and judgment even went so far, some of them, as to buy it. Peter Hope, looking forward, saw fame and fortune coming to him.
William Clodd, looking round about him, said—
“Doesn’t it occur to you, Guv’nor, that we’re getting this thing just a trifle too high class?”
“What makes you think that?” demanded Peter Hope.
“Our circulation, for one thing,” explained Clodd. “The returns for last month—”
“I’d rather you didn’t mention them, if you don’t mind,” interrupted Peter Hope; “somehow, hearing the actual figures always depresses me.”
“Can’t say I feel inspired by them myself,” admitted Clodd.
“It will come,” said Peter Hope, “it will come in time. We must educate the public up to our level.”
“If there is one thing, so far as I have noticed,” said William Clodd, “that the public are inclined to pay less for than another, it is for being educated.”
“What are we to do?” asked Peter Hope.
“What you want,” answered William Clodd, “is an office-boy.”
“How will our having an office-boy increase our circulation?” demanded Peter Hope. “Besides, it was agreed that we could do without one for the first year. Why suggest more expense?”
“I don’t mean an ordinary office-boy,” explained Clodd. “I mean the sort of boy that I rode with in the train going down to Stratford yesterday.”
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