HOW PROOF-READING SOUNDS.
Some writer has produced a poem entitled “ Sounds from the Sanctum.” It reads just too pretty, and gives rise to the thought that the author never visited the sanctum when business was in full blast. If he had called about midnight, for instance, he would have seen two saints, one paring over a proof-slip, the other holding tho copy, and tho sounds would have been something like this : Proof Reader —“ As Hewers without the sunshine fair—comma —so —comma without you —comma—do I—full stop—breathe adark and dismal mare —” Copy Holder —“Thunder! not mare—air.” Proof Reader —“ I breathe a dark and dismal air—comma —of flowers —comma,” Copy Holder—“ Shoot the comma.” Proof Reader—” 'Tie done. As bowers without the sunshine fair —semi-colon —confound No. 7, he never justifies his lines—No joy in life—comma—-no worms—” Copy Holder—“ Warmth.” Proof Reader —“No warmth I share comma—and-health and vigorous flies— Copy Holder—” Blazes ! Health and vigor fly—” Proof Reader—“ Health and vigor flyfull stop.” | That’s about the sound of it when poetry is on the deck-.—“ Des Moines Register.”
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2173, 11 February 1881, Page 3
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177HOW PROOF-READING SOUNDS. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2173, 11 February 1881, Page 3
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