To The Editor
The Editor is very wise. He doesn’t even have to guess. He knows what stuff the public buys And what must never go to press. Now, should one write to him and say The linnet sings upon the wing (doth it?) And all miy summers will be gay, Would you but print this little thing? Or should one leap upon a tram, Confront him with a carefree grace; Stridently shouting "Here I am!" And wave one’s script before his face? Would Edgar Wallace be the game, And should one write in blood " Dear Ed: Print this-or by my surest aim To-morrow you will find you're dead "’? Alas! no treatise has been penned Containing but the slightest hint Of how to please the Editor, And get the wretched stuff in print.
Dorothy Ann
Beavis
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 16
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136To The Editor New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 16
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