"Yes," sez he, "I haint the least doubt on it; but then, if you git out of the city, it don't make much difference which way you go." I see that he'd made up his mind to have his own way; but think sez I, you don't git it without another tough pull, anyhow; so sez I-- "I raly feel as if I must doctor a leetle; and when a feller feels tuckered out, or down-hearted, there is no place like hum, if it's ever so homely,--and nobody can take care of a feller like his own marm. Now I know jest how it'll be--the minit I git hum, the old woman will go to making root-beer; she'll sarch all over the woods for saxafax-buds to make tea on, and there'll be no eend to the snake root and fennel seed bitters that she'll make me drink. I raly feel as if I must go; so don't you say any more about it," sez I; "I shall come back agin as bright as a new dollar." If there is anything on arth that holds on hard, it's a York Editor; a lamper-eel is nothing to one on 'em. They'd have their own way, if the Old Nick himself stood afore them as big as the side of a house. By-am-by the hull truth come out; sez the Editor, sez he, a speaking as soft and mealy-mouthed as could be, sez he-- "But, Mr. Slick, you can't write any letters for _us_ in Weathersfield; so jest make up your mind to start right off. You can go hum any time." "But I want to doctor," sez I. "Oh, take a box of Sherman's cough lozengers," sez he, a smiling; "they cured you last winter, you know." With that, he let off a stream of soft sodder, sez he, "a man of your talents oughtn't to bury himself in the country. The members of Congress are all a-tip-toe to see you, and so are the gals in Washington--the Russian Embassador's wife and all on 'em." It warn't in human natur to stand agin this; so I sort of relented. "Oh, you're a joking," sez I, a hitching on my chair; "I don't raly s'pose the Washington gals ever heard of me in their hull lives." "Hain't they, though," sez he. "Wal," sez I, "I should kinder like tu go, jest to see what Congress people look like. I've a sort of a notion that mebby I shall run for Congressman myself one of these days. I don't believe there's a feller in all York better qualified. When I come away from Weathersfield, I could lick any feller there, big or leetle; and I've a sort of a sort of a notion that I can dress out any of them varmints in the Capitol, if they do practice a leetle more than I du." The Editor of the Express, he larfed a leetle easy, and sez he, "Well, Mr. Slick, it's all settled then--and the sooner you start the better." "I'll think about it," sez I.