TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Write npon pages of a sin ale size,
Cross all your t’s, and neatly dot your i’a; On ono Bide only let your lines bo soon— Both sides filled up announce a Verdant Green. Correct —yes, re-correct—all I hat you write, And let your ink be black, yourpaper white; For spongy foolscap of a muddy blue Betrays a mind of the same dismal hue.
Punctuate carefully, for on this score Nothing proclaims the practised writer more. Then send it off, nnd, lest it. merit luck,
Inclose the postage stamps to send it back ; But first pay nil the postage on it too, For-editors look black on “ two pence duo,” And murmur ns they run the effusion o'er, “ A shabby fellow nnd a wretched bore I” Yet ere it goes, take off a copy elean— Poets should own a copying machine; Little they know the time that’s spent nnd earn In hunting verses vanished-whoknows where? Bear this in mind, observe it to the end,
And ydu shall make the editor your friend.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 222, 14 November 1874, Page 2
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173TO CORRESPONDENTS. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 222, 14 November 1874, Page 2
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