Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-12-10
q MORE COPY"

Onee in August, wet and dreary, sat
this writer, weak and weary. pontering
DER = memorandum book OF items used
befors-( books OF scrawlirg notes rather
items taken days to gather them in ho,
and sultry weather using up so much time
and lea,hsr) pondered We those items DER
While we connd them slowly rocking
through cur mind queer ideas A5ckirg,
came . quick and nervous knocking
knocking at the sanctum door. "Sure that
mus, be Jiaks," We muitered-Jinks that's
knocking q, our door; Jinks, the everl.s.
ing bore
Al, well do We remind US, in the walls
which then cosGned us. the Exchanges ;"
lay behind US, and before US, all scattered
0 'er the floor Thought we, Jlnks wants
to borrow some new parers till TO MORROW,
and twill be relief IRON sorrow to get rid
Of Jinks, the bore, BY opening wide the
door, Still the visitor kept "a knocking
knoctng lounder than before.
And the scattered piles of paper cut
some rather curious capers. s.ebeing lifted BY
the breezes through another door; aud We
wished (the wish was evil, for one deemed
always civil) that Jinks was at the ID. to
stay there evermore; there to find his leve!
-Jinks, the uerve.unstrnsing bore.
BraciLg up our patience firmer, then
without another murmur, " Mr.. Jiaks,'
said we, "your pardon, your forgiveness
we implore--but the fact is we were read
ing some curious proceeding, and thus it
was unheedlng your loud knocking there
before" Bat phaucy now our pheelinks
for it wasn't Jinks the bore --Jinks, the
nameless evermore!
But the form that stood before US, caused
a trembling to come osr us, and memory
quickly bore us back again to the days of
yore days when /" items were in plenty,
and where'er we went we picked interest
ing items by the score. Twas the form
OF our devil in attitude not very unciv-
il; and he thrust his head within the open
door, with "The foremans ont o copy ;
sir--and says he wants some morer' Yes,
like Alexander, wanted more
Now, this 'loc.l had already walked
about till nearly dead he had saun,ered
through the city Til his fee, were very
sore walked throush the street called
Dauphin, AID the hy.ways running of
into the city both puhlie and obscure /; had
questioned every 'irl!er whom he met
from door To door, il anything was stir,
ring-any incident oceurring-not pub
lishei heretofore; and had met with no
success he would rather kind of guess he
felt lirtle wicked al that ugly little bore,
with his message from the foreman that
he wanted something more"
Now, its time you were departing you
scamp, cried We, upstarting get You
hack into the uilee---uh, ~ where you were
before or the words lhai yuu have spos
en- will get your bane- all broken" land
we seil a euirel, oaken, that was
lying On the haor "iake Your hands OUT
ot your packets, ani leave the sanctum
door; tell the lureiaau there is no copy,
you u IL little bore. Qaoth our devil,
send him mere
And aur devil neyer sitting, still il fit
ing back ani forth nl,on the Ian ling iust
uat,iie one sAuetuM door. Tears down
| hs check. ar. streaming strange hgb,
rom hi, eve i, heamiEg aud III, voice i.
neuid s,tll screaming, Sir, the iura,
man wants some N ,re T. And our sauI
pierced ~,th ser.amlng, Is awakened is,u
i,s dreaming, aud lost the peaceful feeling
| had before for the fancy all ep,ae u'e,
us that each readers face hstnre us bear.
ths hossid words. 'ss want 4 i,,lle more
Words on their ioteheads slar,ng, 'yoa,
tuaay eoluMn nesds llule ~ re = ~,
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