Next morning it appeared as follows:
'We quote from "The Tea-Pot" of yesterday the subjoined paragraph:
"Oh, yes! Oh, we perceive! Oh, no doubt! Oh, my! Oh, goodness! Oh,
tempora! Oh, Moses!" Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his
reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning nor
end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the
vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this O-ing
is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a great
hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it is
pitiful."'
The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations,
I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle,
however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon his
integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his style
that drove him to desperation. What!- he Touch-and-go Bullet-head!-
not able to write a word without an O in it! He would soon let the
jackanapes see that he was mistaken. Yes! he would let him see how
much he was mistaken, the puppy! He, Touch-and-go Bullet-head, of
Frogpondium, would let Mr. John Smith perceive that he, Bullet-head,
could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole paragraph- aye! a whole
article- in which that contemptible vowel should not once- not even
once- make its appearance. But no;- that would be yielding a point
to the said John Smith. He, Bullet-head, would make no alteration in
his style, to suit the caprices of any Mr.
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