My first thought was to print these reminiscences in a newspaper. But our papers are unable to pay for contributions. It was not so in the former days. Well do I remember when the _Dispatch_ cheerfully gave me its dollars, not merely for stories and sketches, but for trifles like the “_Weekly Rekord uv amewsments_,” which I then kept, and which seemed to please our good people of Richmond, who were then doing so well in business that they were easily pleased. And truly in those times they were a liberal, open-hearted set. So would they be now were they able. Will we ever see good times and plenty of money again? I think so. And yet often I get very blue, apprehending still greater business …
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