The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-12-18
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An honest -therefore poor young man, just cut
adeift irotl SaIeg-.
Was driven to devise a pan Tor barFerins his RnoW-
efse,
He til 4usiIt and taought a weary while, then off bis
And y ,- slszt ras,ed Of some seventeen pages Of
,ntHu-er.pt,
Cstc I'd Wt.tten only on one side, from which
4ncsS
Tna, - s1eaat for nothing less than " copy for
The press.
Nauglt ,sseal u5out this youth-he quoted French
aud G.tek aud Latin;
He press,{ st5tgeA.t ard modern history into service,
and, though he had only a small stock OF meta
pilys4es on hand, he didn't hesitate TO work
that III.
Then straightway he concealed the article upon his
person.
And went on publication day lhe couldn't have
chosen \ worse oIre}
To the office Of a weekly, where be somehow found
the editor,
Who eyed hun with an ugly g,are, as thoughhe we're
d creii or.
The editor clutchcd tbs maIasoIIpt; fumbled it hat
minute.
Looked ii tae hrs. page, then the last, and knew all
that MAS IN it.
He gave It back. sits very good he said, .'Dut
we can't Use 1t.
We should have to piow up several acres OF flowers
of rhetoric, translate, boi IT down. and put q
head on it; and, as there IS 10 news i'll it, any
how, though it is a capital article, | fear we
must refuse 1t.
The young man went away, and pondered. SITS
qnlst pam. sad &c,
Imust b..
Ergo, if / e5tid but contrive to write 9 little
batly,
The editor, undoubtedly, would take my matter
gladly
He set to work again, and ali his powers he put a
- tax on,
Until he hsd produced a piece Of rough-hewn Anglo
Saxot.
He tried to MAKE 1t seem abrupt, and t. have the
langua &c terse.
awe got asuns " thout quotations and metaphors
he sa d, :" aud ,ethered my sc + to pain state
ments. and hav3 used only two or three kinds
of ~eplthets; IN the who e, I couldn't write
much WORSE"
He went again to the editor, with a kind OF sense Of
- shame.
eff you 81 ,uld zee fit to publish this he sad,
"dou'l use my name"
The editor turned the pages DER with evident in
terest.
"Its better than the last he said, "though hardly
Ill request"
"1wont give up the young man said, as he sadly
"I've got to harness my genius down, if want to
make 1t pay"
30 he tried one more, and. after nights Of labor, he
- suceeeied
In writing such a shockingly bad thing that he didn't
dare look it over. He broke away from every
cheslshed tradition, rammed Whole para
graphs into u snort s~sntence; hun ell u "a Is
and spattered 1t about; and put the whole t :
gelher Ii suen All uueoutn way tAat hs ID
teachers would have saia q First R5ader was
what he needed.
He didn't like to go With this. His Leart kegan =
fail.
So he bori owed a dozen postage stamps aud stnti i
{ roug the mail.
He waited trcLlDIi!4e.s. All answer cai.ie ttat Very
nIgat,
Which sad tie editor had found tLe aFs a.
rlglt.
He tent a check in payment, and lie h:lsea. ~ lie
eDa.
That be Il axe rs much of that soIt - e. Il t44y
- man chose to send.
From til.s ~ i til 1Ae said young nj la pes
pc. ed lDore or lest,
Ana he Il way g Is rs friends tat a csrsttt. = ut
rafio.4 of b d tlHte, tostt abslEeIte i. - I :
lege Rhetoric aid ; 5l1 nls.sE 4445 =. n aas-
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