The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-24
VISITED BIZ a POET.
Tho Editor Accepts the Manuseript at
Regular Space Rates.
Chicago Tribune

Tho Editor Accepts the Manusoript at
Regular Space Rates.
Chicago Tribune.
"What would this be worth 70 youf r. IN
quired tall, slender man with alarRo and
mobile mouth. . retreating chin, and !
thin fringe of whisker on the angle OF
either jaw, as he walked into the Office of
the Doodleville Hclper and laid q bundle of
manuscript on the EDITORS table.
Editor Clugston picked it up leisurely
and looked 1t over.
HIN! This is poetry. is It not3" he
said.
Eyes. A poem on immortality.
Il thought | noticed that most of the
lines seemed to begin with capital. What
was the inquiry You made about it?
What is it werth to youf''
"What 10 your idea of its valuef"
well. 1t took me four hours to write #
burned midnight oil over that poem."
II have done the same thing over tariff
editorial many time" unused Nj. Clug.
ston.
"And it seems to me it ought 70 b. worth
$1O."
sAre you aware, Mr.. --"
my name is Isnoggles Perry Isnoggles.
Accent on the Il.
Isnoegles, that John Milton sold Paradise
Lost for only SO, one-third cash and the
rest on timef"
'Why-"
Are you aware that Robert Burns once
tried to sell Tam O'Shanter' for 8 suit of
clothes worth about $6502''
mo. never heard"
did you know, Mr.. Isnoggles.n said
Editor Clugsion, with increasing severity.
THAT Oliver Goldsmith once sold 3 poem
two stickfuls long for glass of ale and
three links OF sausage, and that Homer
refused an offer of sheepskin for his HAD
because he thought it was worth two
sheepskins?"
III take IS for the poem. Mr.. Clugs-
tom"
Perhaps you have never heard. Mr..
Isnoggies," pursued the editor, "that
Plautus, the Roman poet, would grind out
schrimps7 Z"
Say 81 So" suggested tina visitor.
And you did not know. possibly, that
Tasso. the Italian poet, hawked four page
shiliings, and couldn't sell it ct that?n
Would $l.50 be too much for this?n
"A dollar and half for Eve pages al
manuscript that Dryden would have sold.
CROWN"
..You can have it for nothing. Mr..
"H'ml This viii take up-let me ,ee-
in loaded long-primer. at least half q col
umn, Mr.. Isnoggies."
I'D like to have it 20 in. wouldn't
er-mind paying you. say so cents, Mr..
CluestOn, II you can make room for ii. !"
At regular rates. Mr.. Isnoggles. !" replied
the editor. "this would come TO about s.. so.
but believe IN encouraging home poets a
much as | can. You are ! home boat A.
you notf"
Il was raised out here ON the Bilbv
farm"
And on that account" resumed the al !.
itor. making . few figures on . sheet of
paper before him, II viii come down to an
even S. BILL" - -
'.Thsnk you, Mr. CIugston. It isn't er-
actly what had expected, but -,
Cash IN advance, Of course"
Mr.. IsnOgsles drew out q rather leao
wallet. extracted the money therefrom
and handed it over.
Please say nothing about this.n said
M. Ciugston, grandly, rs he put the
money In pocketbook ten times ieaner
than his visitors. ~ wouldn't do Il for
everybody" ~
Mr.. Isnoggles expressed his gratitude
and walked out
Darn newspaper man that can't d.
use some way 20 meet washbiiI "a s0lilo-
quired Editor Ciugston - he leaned hack
IN his chair and looked ct himself in the
glass. $50