The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-11-30
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MY Choice.
No more need to sing Id VAIN,
ssuonld I a bird SO free were.
Because If I should want to soar,
/ have method much feeter.
The aeroplane would be my choice,
To satisfy my ambition.
I'd mount with into the air
And dy from ocean TO ocean.
Walt Rudyard Tennyson.
old Billy Shakespeare must have
been some Base Ball Fan In his day.
wa And among his more or less famous
sorivaninrs sOme statements which
would lend themselves adm1ra-
hlS' 10 q write up of the recent worlds
series. base ball games between Pnlla-i
delphia and New York.
For instance, In Richard Third ne
comes out boldly as an ardent tan Dy
saving II will 60 to root" Then the
remark sNoW you strike like the blind
man" which occurs in Much Ado About
Nothing might well have been uttered
by Plank or Bender; likewise Thou
ca1ast not hit it." from Loves Labor
lost. Anent the Snodgrass-Bak
spiking episode we find in Hamlet that
stThe.nla as remember pleased not
fha T1illion." Then for the umpire
we flnd also in Hamlet "Out, / say"
In Romeo and Juliet occurs an ap-
propriate line to the substitute player,
saThey can not sit at ease on the old
bench" AS the game progresses,
such remarks as ooh, hateful error!
from Julius Caesar, and What an arm
he has!" from Coriolanus fill the air,
and finally from the bleachers Baker
is greeted with line from Hamlet,
"a Hit, A Hit, very palpable hit"
A certain awkardness marks the use
of borrowed thought, but as soon as
we have learned what to do with them,
they become our own.-Emerson.
OF borrowed thoughts you speak ar1gnt
Their use is surely awkard,
And when swipe another's stun,
My lines go hiking gawkard.
You also say that when we learn,
A borrowed thoughts right usage,
| Our own it is, our very own,
| But gee, that plays the deucage.
Because, good scribe, I've tried that
stunt,
This borrowing thing you've named
Sir;
And when't came time to call it mine
! I've always been ashamed Sir.
| of q
preparation, but,-well, the stun al
ways turned out pretty punk.
It might be well to assert right here
that slang is not strictly modern in.
diligence, as many think, but ha!
been in use from time immemorial. We
find, f'rinstance, that when Eve hand
ed Adam the apple, she said "Take i
from me-" Then in the fourth act o.
Macbeth, the following dialogue takes
place: Fleance: "Thou lest" Murder
er: what, YOU EGG
And from "The Two Angry WomeI
of Arlington" by Henry Porter (1599)
How means't thou? Is he drunk
He's SOAKED thoroughly, faith"
Pitch into your ancient literatur'
and dig up some of these expression
yourself, and send them to this column
The Accented Syllable.
Said III. G. M to me one day;
81 think you are some poet,
AT making verse, or maybe worse,
You're good, but you don't know it.
Arrange for me some syllables,
And fix e mso they'll rhyme,
I'd like to have them sure this weel
So send the min on time"
A moments thought, / grabbed m
pen,
And then to work I went.
/ tried awhile, but all i had
Was naught but good intent.
My thinkery was empty,
1t seemed so strange to me,
I'd think and write, but when i
look,
No rhymlets could see.
In place of classy syllables,
Accept these lines fromsme,
They're sent with an apology,
With the accent on the gee.
L. e. B.
She asked him how he liked her b,
He said "Tis very swell,
1t looks just like Helmet hat
With the accent on the Hell"
M. s c..
This column will run special fe.
y lures on the occasion Of the openin
of the Panama Canal in 1915. Ordt
your copy OF the Hustler now.
We will also get out a special ed
ton when the new postof1ce buildin
is completed. But that is peeping tt
far into the future.
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Oh, All Right.
Print my poem-do not spurn it.