, 1876-01-30

q Wh2t, then, are thine acQuirementA4
Unfold them to mine ear
To him the Sood1y childc replied:
VI an cTadunts
OF the foremost university
In an adjacent Stale.
Class poet have been, and. ~
valedic,ortan bold,
Gy name upon the scroll Of fA1ue
Last June was high enrolled.
Twas printed tn the Podunk Giabe,
And must beg to state
There is ! new quotation in
Beginning Lives Of great
1have written for the podunk Glo5e
And for the Mud Lick Age:
So tell me, thou good editor,
An ME thon wilt c,g7gc?"
Cp epole thst city editor
With e31donic smile;
Twere idle 10 deny TINT I
Am taken with your style.
You have powerful mind and = soul
That IL innocent Of guile.
For thee I prophecy career
Even more eucceEsful than
BY Horaee Greeley was achieved,
Or Aast carpen1e1's yunng man.
10 thou shalt my reporter he
And earn goc1ly wage.
More than could psy the podunk Gzobe
Or tho Nud Lick Nc<sly Age"
To him the goodly childe replied:
''Iour kindness overpowers,
But. Ike the bury bee, ID fain
Improve the shining hou11.
So give to NE the good notebook,
And Faber No. 2,
And let me know what's to be done,
And will mp aud do.n
Ur epate tb.t city editor
With sardauic 1cok,
As from the rack upon his dcak
4 mighty tome he took:
" Just now the t.tacs arc very dull
And little ia there thats new.
But editors ind some ite.Is still
For idle Aauds to d..
Let's See 4 dog-nKht's to come on
Up IN the Thirteenth Ward;
You must find out the tine and placa.
labor BY no means hcrd.
At noon thezeIl be tax-payers'
Convention on Clark Gtrrct,
And ut O'Clock the ministers
At uuion Parf Church neet
II yo1 happen to be passing down
Wnhpansrh nvcn-e,
Call on this Cente.uka and get
4 good long interview.
Then loaf around the City-fIa11
And see what Colyin says;
And interview frank 4Ians, too,
Likewise Comptroller Hayes.
Another thing wish you'd do
fIis m important th:Eg},
That's to find out all that's done about
The Chicago Whisky Fling.
There's secret meeting to I've held
And Aldermen thercat
WILL discuss this new gas companJt~
lie sure you don't miss thct-
And jot down any little thing
OF interest you may meet,
For good uews-gathercr hudeth oH
1tcIn1 on every Etrcet.
And, Q, wish you'd interview
MeCatrcy. He may fight,
He travcis with = nasty crowd,
But God defend the right.
So take this club. In case Of roKB
Be kure you wie1d it veil,
And when you're writing up the fight
just give hin merry hell.
That's about I'll, Guess- Tonight
You might take this lecture in;
Dpnt giyo 1t more than two columns.
Ttisli do to begin.
Time may hang heary CT your bands
At 6 or thcrc1bont-
30 come to me and the afternoon
NeHB sid in writing out"
That rCral journalist Mt first
Took hia appointments down
In Ill sincerity. But soou
His brow assumed frown.
From black his look next passed to blank,
And in his fixed gaze
Alarm and indignation were
Absorbed in hheer a1p1xe-
Pale grew his face as any ghost;
Down dropped lis Faber good;
You could have hanged your HI. on his eyea
So far they did protrtte.
His lower jaw like y cellar-door
Fell down upon his breast,
Ana to the city editor
1.heee wort1s he soft addressed:
Lo. thou hast clalked out work enough
lie seeHetb, for one tlAyr
Ere go forth on tho ss1r-path
6ay what shall b. MY pey7''
Up f1aEc that city editor,
With sArdouic grin:
: Twelve dollars week for the 1rBt month.
And Afterwards fifteen"
Then he urrose. tint goodly chi1dc,
And made i low salaam
Unto fhe editor, the while
He murmured, '' Well, Tn dam
He wAietled Mourufcl air, and said
't Well, guess I'd better get"
And forth he Jared from the oTeu door,