An Unfinished Verse.
Alexander" Dumas was one day the g»est. of. ( Dr Gistal, a leading pmcti- <■ tidner '< m mudeilhß. JQfei dinner, while the coffee was beiug handed round the,.ko3fc requestedthe gre^ r( noyelisb to enrich his album with oneof'his witty improvisations. " Cerfeinlry," replied Dumas, with, a smile and drawing out his pencil he wrote, under -,tl\o, eyes of his entertainer, the following lines :— Since Dc GisUl came to our town,, To cure diseases casual and hereditary, The hospital has been pulled down — " You flatwrer.if' here exclaimed the doctor, mightily pleased ; but the poet went on — ' And we have made alarge cemetery.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 129, 30 April 1884, Page 2
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101An Unfinished Verse. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 129, 30 April 1884, Page 2
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