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Show Why Printers are Dissipated. A certain typo, whose nose shone in the dark like a lighthouse, from the effects of steady and copious libations of stimulants, having been asked why printers wcro dissipated, astonished tho questioner by the following pootio answer: When qt'uors shunned the murky sky, When flash 011 flush was brighL'ning, Great Franklin went to fly his kite, And bottle up the lightning. Andsincethis time.whon cares oppress, And the hard times are tiglit'ning, Tho printer seeks to drown his woes In draughts of "bottled lightning." When badly tattered his warm heart A place for grief to rankle in lie Likes tho "lightning," flies his kite, And thinks himself a Franklin. |
