A JOURNALIST'S REPORT.
A lawyer, having occupied a journalist* room last night, thought to make a joke at the expense of his host, and sent him the following lines :—
I ilept in an editor's bed last night. When no other chanced to bo night; And I thought, as I tumbled the editor's How easily editor's lie, The journalist was equal to the occasion and immediately penning the following lines, sent them to the.lawyer:—> If the lawyer elept in the editor's bed, When no other chanced to bo nigh; And though he had written and naively said How easily editor's lie ; He must then admit, as he lay on the bed And slept to his heart's desire, Whate'er he may say of the editor* bed, 'Twag the lawyer himself was the' Her I
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4498, 5 June 1883, Page 2
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132A JOURNALIST'S REPORT. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4498, 5 June 1883, Page 2
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