The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-08-19
A POETIC
DIFFICULTY
Marley Soush, Aid in a Rhyme
for "Loosed."

upon rev. Ut. 1OtlS W dSh III ae@io'
ance. When the doctor came down to
the parlor, Matkley said:
Doctor, called to see you confiden-
TALLY about matter that has been
troubling me, and ! want to get some
advice"
Very proper, very proper" said the
doctor. 81 am always glad to find a
young man turning his thoughts to
serious things. Now just tell me what
your experience has been, and then /
will give you couple OF good books to
read, SO as to prepare you before you
make formal application for admission
to the church"
81 think you misunderstood me-
said Markley. The trouble to which
l refer Is not exactly that nature.
L"
'T see." said the doctor, you have
committed some crime; you are
prey to remorse. You want to unbo-
som yourself to me. Go en-, sir go
on! Tell me the whole melancholy
story. Nothing can be better than for
criminal to confess before he makes
restitution. Have you enHeZzled
money, or have you"
"Oh, not at ALL The fact is that |
am writing poem, and I have got to
place where l must find good word
to rhyme with loosed,' and ] can't 1t
bothers me like the mischief"
"Oh, that is it. Well, now, what is
the situation? What are the facts of
the case?"
We'll, you see, there is a girl who
has been captured by the Indians. Her
lover. who is the hero Of the story,
pursues the sayages. At last he over
takes them. and, after driving them
off. he finds that girl tied to tree.
They were going to kill her, you know.
Well, now, my point is that he I'M
lopsed her and tried to get her out OF
the way before the Indians returned,
but I can't get The right word to rhyme
with 'loosed.'
1T seems hard that you should suf-
fer when there are so many words in
the dictionary Hmm! lemme see;
how would boost do? Would it do for
the lover to boost that girl up that
tree?
When once he had unloosed her.
Up the tree he tried to boost her
how's that"
1T hardly is the thing" said Mark
ley. THE rhyme is good, but the idea
of the lover boosting his darling up
maple tree is not sufficiently affecting;
there is not enough poetry in it"
perhaps not" said the doctor.
well, then, what do you say to 'roost|
'Roost' is good rhyme.
When the maiden was Embossed,
She went up the tree to roost.
Something like that, you know
Il thought of 'roost," replied Mark
ley, but upon the whole | think I'd
rathep not send the girl up that tree,
and as she is out in the midst of
trackless wilderness there's actually
no other place anywhere about for her
to roost Can't manage it anyway you
fix IT,"
NO? Well, let's see, loosed-
loosed-noosed; how about 'noosed?'
You might make the lover chase the
Indians with lasso, and catch one
in the moose.
When his darling was unloosed
a savage brave he noosed
Now that seems to me to be first
rate"
Don't strike me favorably,' said
Markey. The way I've got it he has
nothing with him but a double-bar-
relied gun, and he couldn't lasso an In
dian with that, now could he? And
anyhow, he Is a salesman in a mil
linery store In New York, and those
people hardly ever know how to throw
the lasso, any way.
"Wen, what do you say to used /?
You might put It:
She was glad to be unloosed,
For to Il she was not used.
Or suppose you take amused for IN
stance and say:
At his efforts to get her Embossed
She was very greatly amused
And then you might use the word re
fused" and fix 1t somehow this way:
After he got her completely Embossed
He wanted to kiss her but she refused.
Or:
To kiss him she couldn't be induced.
"Im afraid not" said Markley Ten
nyson and those other fellows never
make amused rhyme with Embossed;
and as for the others, | couldn't say
she refused to kiss him, for in the
very next line assert that she PUSHES
into his arms and smothers him with
her endearing kisses Blamed if
know what we'll do about it, I've got
q notion to write to Rudyard Kipling
| TO ask him"
How would It do to invent a new
| word?" asked the doctor. 1T would
be original and it would attract at
tention Say, for instance, you con.
range It in this way:
| When his darling was uIioosed
| They Ieaped upon their horses and glu-
gluost.
Nobody would know what it meant,
and it would give the poem wild, un-
earthly air kind of mysterious, and
weirdlike. and awe-inspiring appear.
ance that would make peoples hair
stand on end"
ITS good idea,' said Markley
"Ill think it over Much obliged to
you. Good morning
And he bowed himself out. The
| poem has not yet appeared and
don't know what word was used to