POETRY.
THE DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBER. [From the “Rural New Yorker.” One day last week, while sad and dreary. As wended, weak and weary, Across the unswept floor : We hoard, at first, a gentle tapping, Then it became an earnest rapping At cur sanctum door. * Come in ! ’ wa said, yet while we pen dered And in silence we still wondered What for us could be in store; Then, the door-bolt gently turning, _ In he walked. Our cheek wa, burning! Thoughts of crimson gore I * Are you the man who does the writing ? ’ (What word will rhyme with this but fighting ? Quickly 1 bought we, o’er and o’er) * Sir. we are,’ we gently told him, Nodding to the boys to hold him. If he tried to beat ns sore. ‘Then you'll please give me a credit Opposite that little debit, For two dollars more ; I like your paper and will take it As long at you strive to make it As good as it has been before.’ We jumped ! he dodged ! thus we missed him. Or we should have surely kissed him, No matter if the boya did roar ! So seldom treated in this manner. We felt inclined to sing hosannah ! Only this and nothing more.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2070, 12 October 1880, Page 3
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