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I am told, at Brighton. I think if he do the military part, and you the rest, it will be a capital job. I shall agree on the usual terms; three half crowns a sheet, thirty shillings a volume for books to be broken up;" "but I must have an additional six-pence per sheet for flour paste." I dont like to find the flour; it would be establishing a bad precedent for my other authors, and would stand me in a sack of flour each quarter; besides they might be making puddings as well as books. No; all my authors must find their own scissars and paste; you know the workman at every craft finds his own tools; and the master only finds the materials. I must hear of no charge for paste:" "well, be it so, we shall not out about that, let's see about Spontoon to-morrow." "Scribble," resumed Nincompoop, "do you know of any good hand at methodist sermons and hymns?"