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Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 269, 27 March 1873, Page 9

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EDITORIAL CAPABILITIES. Will Carleton, the rising young American poat, in an editorial poem, thus tells how a farmer took a youngster of his to a printingoffice to be made into an editor, being fit for nothing else : — The editor sat in his sanctum, and looked the old man in the eye ; Then glanced at the grinning young hopeful and mournfully made this reply : "Is your son a small unbound edition of Moses and Solomon both ? Can he compass his spirit with, meekness, and strangle a natural oath ; XJan he leave all his wrongs to the future, and carry his heart in his cheek ? Can he do an hour's work in a minute, and live on sixpence a week ? Can he courteously talk to an equal, and browbeat an impudent dunce ? Can he keep things in apple-pie order, and do a half-dozen at once ? Can he press all the springs of knowledge with quick and reliable touch ? And be sure that he knows how much to know, and knows how to not know too much ? Does he know how to stir up his yirtive, and put a check-rein on his pride ? Can he cany a gentleman's manner's within a rhinoceros' hide ? Can he know all, and do all, and be all with cheerfulness, courage, and vim ? If so. we perhaps can be making an editor outeno'him." The farmer stood curiously listening, while wonder his visage o'erspread, And he said, " Jim, I guess we'll be goin' ; he'B probably out of his head."