Authorship.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2968, 4 August 1888, Page 2

Authorship.

'Nobody but us literary people knows how closely grows the attachmeisibo- • tween the author aiid his characters. It is related of Mrs Hariet - Stowe that when from the pages of 1m . manuscript she read the death pf Little Eva, the entire family sat bathed in her tears; nor could one.of them •>:>? > speak a word, but all. mouwjAUy * , separated, going 1 to their, rom^as, v though they liad attended the funeral >- of a dear friond. Somerfriends •: Thackeray on the'streit one day, and his countenance bore I iace3*of intense grief. " What is the matte):they \ . asked. ■" I. havo ju3t killed Colonel Newcouio," lie sobbed, bursting into., tears as ho hurried away. Charles - ""I Dickens had the same experience. So' 1 / • did I. Mine was oven inoro 'hanw-,-yX ing.- When I wrote my first funny."' story about Mr Bilderbackgoing up i --i on tho roof to shovel off the snow, and,-. •• making an avalanche. of himself and :: , sliding doWn into a water-barrel I was almost heart-broken. I didn't kill Mr. Bilderback myself. Ah, indeed, I ■■■■■{ hadn't the heart to do that.. The. ' managing editor, that dear, consider- ■. ate soul,.saw howl felt about it, and he killed liim for me. Ho also killed . all the other dear, loving characters in the sketch. And as I was leaving ' ■ lie remarked that .lie would kill mejj£y/ ; I ever came back with any more Stir ' stuff. He meant it, too. PeopLtflio saw mo coming out of the officewaping dust, and lint, and pine slivers, and gouts of paste off my back saw at - y once, by my grief-stricken face, that ,f something had happened. But 1 could ; not toll them what. My poor, bursting heart was too full.—lt. J. Burdette, in v; the Burlington Hawkeye. : .'-3