Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-05
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49, s"" ~ looking into the future.
'" Th;s icft me unmoved. for ! was con-
ce,ned for the past. and no peering OF N.Y.
.nt;,sd hovs into mirrors and ink-pooi,s
w"n,d helm me 10 that. But i saw Srish
Chunder's point Of view and sympa'n'1e"
with IL. -, .hat vasip
said Charlie, when / returned 10 MN.
did it instead OF playing dominoe' "''''
lunch. May read it?" ,,,
{" Let me read it 10 myself"
"Then YOU miss the proper e1presslunii
Resides Won always make my things SOUND
"a II the rhymc were oil wrong.
Read il aloud, then. You're remark
ably like a good many other men.
Charlie mouthed me his poem. ana ~ wa .s
not much worse than the average "a u,s
ysrses He had been reading ms poohs
s';,hf,Ilr lint he was not pleased when 1
,oid him that preferred my Longfeiiow
s,ro;cht and undiluted with Charlie.
Then we began 10 GO thr ough the manu-
so,,nt line nv line Charlie. parrying every
affection and correction with:
1Yes, that may be better, but you don
catch what am driving at"
Charlie was, in one way, ~ ieas'' 'eiy
| like one kind Of poet u.L %
There was q pencil scrnwl at the phch vi
On that's not poetry at all. It's some
,ot I wrote last night before went to bed,
and II was too much bother to hunt ior
rhvmea 40 made il 6 sors OF Diank verse
instead
Here is Charles blank verse;:
I've pulled for you when the wind was
against us and the sails were low.
wa you NICER lei US 90?
We ate bread and onions when Won TOOK
towns or ran aboard quickly wheh you
were beaten back by the zoe. A.,
The captains walked up and down the
deck IN fair weather singing songs, but we
were below.
We tainted with our chins on the oars
and YOU did not see that we were idle, Tor
we still swung to and fro.
WIZ you nere5' vi Ms 90!
The salt made the oar. handles like shark
skin. Our knees we're cut to the bone Win
| salt cracks our hair was stuck 10 our Tore
heads and our lips were cut TO our gums
and you whipped us because we couiu not
60.
WIN non nerer lei VS. gO?-
But in a little time we shall run out OF
| the PORTFOLIOS es the water runs along. the
oar-blade. and though you tell the Others
| IN row after us you will never catch us
until Won catch the oar-thresh aud tie up
the winds in the belly of the sail.
Wa you nerer e, ,S 9o|
HIN. What's the oar-thresh. Charlie?'
The water washed up by the oars.
| That's the sort of song they might sing IN
| the galley. " know. Aren't you ever go
| inc to finish that story and give me some
Of the proats?" :,
1T depends on yourself. II You had
only told me more about your hero IN the
| first instance 1t might have been finished
| by now. You're 80 hazy IN your no
| tons"
II only want to give you the general no.
| ton OF 1.-THE knocking about from place
| TO Mace and the fighting and oil that.
Can't YOU I'll in the rest yourself? Make
| the hero save girl on pirate galley and
marry her or do something"
| You're a really helpful collaboration.
| suppose the hero went through some Few
| adventures before he married"
well. then, make him very artful
| card-a low sort Of mana sort OF political
man who went about making treaties and
| breaking them-a black-halred chap who
hid behind the mast when the fighting be-
gan"
but you said the other day that he was
red-haired."
Il couldn't have. Make him black
haired, Of course. You've no imagina-
ton"
Seeing that had just discovered the en-
| tire principles upon which the half-memory
| falsely called imagination. Is based, felt
| entitled to laugh. but forbore for the sake
of the tale.
You're right. You're tho man with
Imagination. A black-haired chap III O
decked ship"
mo. an open ship--like big boat"
THIS was maddening.
"Your ship has been built and designed,
| closed and decked in, you said so yourself,
| protested.
mo. no. not that ship. That was open
| or half-decked, because--by Jove, you're
| right. You made me think of the hero as
| n red-haired chap. OF course If he were
red the ship would be an open one with
painted sails"
Surely. | thought, he would remember
now that be had served in two galleys Of
| least in a three-decked Greek one under
| the black haired political man." and
| again in Vikings open sea-serpent, under
| q man red as O red bear" who went to
| MARYLAND. The Devil prompted me to
| speak.
why, of course, Charlie :" said I.
II don't know. Are you making fun OF
me?"
The current was broken for the time be.
| ing. took up notebook and pretended
to make many entries NIT.
/
native chap like yourself" SAID. after q
pause. THE way you have brought out
the character OF the hero is simply Won
derful."
do you think so 2" he answered with
a pleased flush. 81 often tell myself that
there is more in me than my mo-than
people think"
There's an enormous amount in you"
Then, won't YOU let me send an essay
on The WAYS of Bank Clerks to TT-BI:
| and get the guinea price,"
| That wasn't exactly what meant. old
| fellow; perhaps it would be better toiwait
a little and go ahead with the galley
l story"
"Ah. but shan't get the credit of that
It'd BITS would publish my name and ad
dress If win. What are you grinning at
! They would"
IL knowit. Suppose you 60 for walk.
| want to look through my notes about oul
| story"