Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-07
NO. 1OS.
Poem Making to Order.
From the Chicago Tribune. !

YESTERDAY afternoon the door of the elito-
| rial rooms swung slowly open. and a bushy
head appeared, followed in a short time by
the rest of man whose general outline In.
dictated that he was from the frontier.
is the tycoon IMP he inquired.
''The whn:" inquired the only editor in the
room who was not busv just then.
THE tycoon, the Shah, the main guy
the boss. you know"
"Oh. You mean the editor. No. he is not
around at present. Is there anything we can
do for you:'
Il reckon there might he. Colonel Some
time ago your paper printed something about
a new racket in the shape of a practical tour
nament, n offered prizes and things for the
best verses. Am singin' on the right KEY,
boss?"
Il believe there was something OF that kind
published" replied the person addressed,
"hut il was only in fun"
I'm sorry 20 hear that, pard," continued
the visitor, for ever since leavin Deadwood
I've been thinkin' how soft things was comm
for me 10 have prizes like them offered n
kickin because there was one class tor chill
dren, in which was bound Ia be barred, r'm
powerful sorry it was only in fun"
Are YOU poet?" inquired another mem.
Der of the staff
Il am that boss. Probably l don't look
II. but when il comes TO cxercisin the Muse.
| take what cake thor, il an IN. dumn and
any stray biscuits that the shaft contains
I'm a two tepn,r when von talk poetrv and
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asked another man.
They are all the same level From
Shakespeare to Milton, from Dryden to
Burns, from Wordsworth to l.ongfcllow there
aint no difference. Gimme the tools and
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To live with thee, and be thy love-
1T does seem easy, doesn't it2" observed
one editor to another.
Easy, boss? Why. it's Just cakes and
maple syrup to a man that drops ON the
game. But barrin Byron n two or three
more the most of 'em couldn't even write
things that would read smooth. can show
YOU whole rcams n stacks of PONIES with n
metre that sounds like a lame camel irwin 10
run away Six dollars a dozen would be u
high price for most of them ducks. They're
like them macaroni eating painters they call
Ole Masters Why eighty per centum Of
those fellows wouldn't be allowed In stripe
wagons in a country palnt shop these times "
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''Never mind what | am, sonny" replied
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that have n stvle of their own but I know
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