A, PoET!i B4ciKPiiV>i?r-tfie^fWjish- . ington; Nation ". editor n.jaj£?' A man. • dressed in a linen duster and a straw hat came panting:into pur office yesterday and. gasped, ./..Mis-Mister *d-£d-tor... an-snow in Ot-ot-ta-wah telrle»)fgraphed> special to me,'; and then shivering,, but quickly recovering himself .with/?-the v - duster, continued, 'I have an original - idea which I've weaved into a poem.. Let me .read— •. •- iA " i ; !^'.'-."'. ■ " The snow, the snow, the ugg»ly «now=i-f? '. , . ■ He. said 40 more, b^.dMappe^ed2(^£pji^li,,. the floor. We allied what it ~me«Qt. The devil replied, 'We let him throirffa the trap-door. That man was heer all^ las' night a-Tceadin' his pome to us fellera, and we fixed that trap for him. .We have _ moved the cistern underneath to break. -X his fall.' The poet has^not returned." Jzr^~-
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2559, 20 March 1877, Page 2
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