CHAPTER VI7-Tales Magazine
He gazed at me, as one perplexed between my compliment to his possession—and the imputation my words held as to some scandal in his acquisition of it.
“We-e-ell,” he began, undecidedly, “it can be told in mighty few words. 7-Tales was bequeathed a couple of years ago to the Reverend Horace Shaperston of this city, by his uncle, Jedworth Shaperston, who was an heir of one of the two Scribbs Brothers Book Publishers, who originally founded 7-Tales. Jedworth Shaperston had always kept up the successful policy that had been inaugurated when the magazine was founded. To put out a publication that would sell solely for the text in it—and not for a lot of pictures of women’s legs, silly drawings by Patterson Russel, and what not else. In short, to buy stories—and noth
