The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-04-16
A POET &c
DIFFICULTY


ago in writing poem, and In the
course of the work he got stuck upon
a verse aud it occurred to him to call
upon Rev DR. Potts 10 ask for assist
ance. When the doctor came down to
the parlor, Markley said;
Doctor. I,called tossee you confiden-
TALLY about a matter that has heen
troubling me. and | want to get some
advice
Very proper, very proper" said the
doctor. II 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 a couple Of good books to
read. so as TO prepare you before you
make formal application for admission
TO the church
Il think you misunderstood me"
said Markley. The trouble to which
| refer is not exactly that nature.
L"
II see" said the doctor. you have
committed some crime; you are a
prey W lelliOISc' ipu want " uhbp'
som yourself to me. Go On, sir so
on, Tell me the whole melancholy
story. Nothing can be better than for
a criminal TO confess before he makes
restitution. Have you embezzled
money, or have YOU"
"Oh, not at all The fact is that
am writing poem. aud | have got to
a place where / 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?"
Well. you see, there is a girl who
has been captured by the Indians Her
lover. who is the hero Of the story,
pursues the savages. At last he over,
takes them, and. after driving them
off. he finds that girl tied to a tree.
They were going to kill her, you ksow,
Well. row, my point is that he I'M
loosed her and tried TO get her out OF
the way before the Indians returned,
but | 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, hmme see;
how would boost do? Would ii 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 a
maple tree is not sufficiently affecting;
there is not enough poetry in it."
Perhaps not" said the doctor.
We'll, then, what do you say to 'roost?
'Roost' Is a good rhyme.
When the maiden was Embossed,
She went up the tree n roost
Something like that, you know"
Il thought of roost,' replied Mark
ley. but upon the whole think I'd
rather not send the girl up that tree,
and as she is out in the midst of a
trackless wilderness there's actually
no other place anywhere about for her
to roost. Can't manage 1t anyway you
fix IT,"
NO? Well, let's see, loosed-
loosed-noosed; how about 'noosed?' |
You might make the lover chase the
Indians with a 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 |
Markley. The way I've got it he has
nothing with him but a doube-bar- |
relied gun. and he couldn't lassu 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
We'll. what do you say to used? |
You might put IT:
She was glad to be Embossed,
For to II she was not used.
Or suppose you take amused for in.
stance and say:
At his efforts to get her unloosed
She was very greatly amused.
And then you might use the word ere
fused" and fix it somehow this way:
After he got her completely unlooscd
lie wanted 10 Kiss her but she refused.
Or:
To kiss him she couldn't be induced
I'm afraid not, said Markley. Ten
nysOn and those other fellows never
make amused rhyme with unloosed;'
and as for the others. ! couldn't say
she refused 10 kiss him. for in the
very next line | assert that she rushes
nto his arms and smothers him with
her endcaring kisses. Blamed if |
know what Wen do about It. I've got
l notion to write to Rudyard Kipling
% ask him"
How would It do TO invent a new
Tord?" asked the doctor 1T would
De- original and it would attract at.
ention. Say. for instance. you con.
itruct such word as glugloost, and ar.
ange II in this way:
When his darling was Embossed