THE DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBER.
One day lust week, while sad an 1 dreary, As we wended, weak and weary, Across the unswept'fl-ibr: ' . We heard, at first, a gentle tapping, Then it became an earnest rapping At our s •nctum door. ' Come in!' wo said, yet while we pondered, And in silence we still wondered What -for us could be in store ; Then, the door-bolt gently turning, In be walked. Our cheek wu» burning! Thoughts of crimsom gore; : - 3 1 Are you the man who does the writing ? ' (What word will rhyme with this but fighting Quickly thought we, o'er and o'er.) ' Sir, we tire,' we gently told him, Nodding- to the boys to hold him, If he tried to beat ns sore. 1 Then you'll please give me a credit Opposite that little debit, For two dollars more; I like y >ur paper and will take it As long as 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 kused him, No matter if tbe boys did roar I 8o seldom treated in thU meaner, ■ We felt inclined to sing hosannah ! Only this »nd nothing more. -; ; j —Rural New ; Yorker.:
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3879, 4 June 1881, Page 2
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205THE DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBER. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3879, 4 June 1881, Page 2
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