" Father, Avhat does the printer live on."—" W tiy, child ?"—" Because you said you had not paid him for two years, and you still take the paper." " Wife, put that child to bed ; he's an everlasting talker." What agonies must that poet have eudured who, writing of his love, asserted in his manuscript that he ■' kissed her under the silent stars," and found the compositor had made him declare that he " kicked her under the cellar stairs."
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1234, 4 December 1874, Page 4
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77Untitled Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1234, 4 December 1874, Page 4
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