The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-06
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i ceived last week. they Will not fall to
make tile most of II.
q rho I'ri1c- Winning Line.
Tf,hn To hear the brass ring when y
MRS, CHARLES W. DoNNAnI,y,
Louisa. WI
n spcc,ni Di.ting,,i.i,cd Mention.
no soak them you'd best try the docK
III col THOMAS -. M'.NioANfS, per G. y,
81 City
81 want no brass bands II, my stock.
n ELIZABETH j.. NiAC1I11s, 11l7 East
Main Street
8 FANNY ID. BROOKS, Sntherlin. Va.
S Every autumn get this same stock.
JOHN i. PRICE, Ashland. Na.
They've ben owned by each girl in the
block.
a. L. EVERETT. Cismont, Va. and
Mrs. II. ". P1ARHAM, Petersburg, Va.
Other Excellent Answers.
Z But we do not take glassware in stock.
MAMIE S. PURDY. I,awrcnceville,
THE LINlERICtx ED1'rO1ts MAIL nag.
Bedford city, VA. Oct. /. 1907.
Limerick Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Dear Sir.--I notice iii your article on
the prize limerick in Sundays Times
Dispatch that you say that one OF the
best lines received was not fairly eliSi-
bic. on account of using the word rings
again:
Next summer Eli ask for nose-rings.'
should like to call your attentionI
to the following extract taken from an
article by Carolyn Wells in Harper's
Magazine:
AS a proof of this, let us consider
the following limerick, which. in the
opinion of connoisseurs, is the best
one ever written:
There was young lady of Niger,
Who smiled as she rode on tiger:
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face OF the tiger"
quote this, not In spirit of cfltl-
cism, for i think the winner was
fine; but simply to show that thought
l had the best authority for my use OF
rings" and used it, not by accident,
but advisedly. Yours truly.
(Miss) Il. SALE
Miss Sales's point is undoubtedly
well taken. We were, OF course, quite
aware that many excellent limericks,
including large proportion of those
by Edward Lear. repeated in the fifth
line the rhyme-word used in the first
or second At the same time, we are
quite sure that sentiment nowadays
s is against this form OF duplication;
that most contestants did not feel
that it was open to them, that IL
would not have been quite fair to
honor 1t with the prize. Therefore we
do not feel, and we trust that Miss
Sale does not, that any injustice has
been done.
Dear Sir,-1n your last contest you
seem to have mistaken the idea Of
the limerick entirely; which is to tell |
the whole story in one verse A con-
tinued story OF limericks is the limit,
IL you'll excuse me for saying so.
A SUBSCRIBER.
We excuse Subscriber" for saying
SO with the greatest cheerfulness. |
Z However we shall add that we don't |
think much OF his argument, and trust |
that our readers will take sides with |
U.S.. Maxine's adventures are not any
more Of q continued story than each |
contestant wants to make them. Note
the prize-winning line this week, for
instance. That line has no connec-
ton at all with last weeks limerick.
1t would have been fully as good if
this limerick had been the first of a
any series, and had begun. say thus:
On taking her beauX's rings to hook
A5Elady received bad shock, etc.
This week, certainly. even "Subscrib-
err cannot kick. The new limerick
should be independent enough to suit
anybody. 1t admits of any kind Of
fifth line the wit and originality Of
man, woman or child can devise.
A clever Winston-Salem lady sends
US little bunch Of imericks of her
own:
An editor offered prize.
Y For a poem, both witty, and wise:
The answers We're numerous,
Solemn and humorous.
And he's in it now UP to his eyes.
I'm sick of the limerick lay,
4 ] long for the old-fashioned day,
When man wrote a verse,
For better or worse
And nobdy fought for the pay.
Dear friend oyer there in Virginia,
You know have nothing agin you:
But II you're a poet,
Just step up and show it: