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Show 1'OHtl'V Oil lllll IhMlllit'ul. ! ! c one -iVy into t r Hartium, genllv bni.-h. I tun allow ..tl hi boe.s, and mi, ilis!. I'.- wis lalb-r above the av. nM. nm.i ,u height, I. a what advantage ad-vantage be poh-es-i-,1 in t.'iuMh w.i liir.1 in Ihitkiiess. lie was thin. U" was too thin fur one so till. Hut be hud hair. It was ibm'ing hair. It llow. d doa u upon bis fhiiiiMcj Il would hao vnud ill gi'aeelul locks, hut it wasn't the uirhilatiug kind of hair, lie looked at tho lolir able-belied able-belied men wiio were hitting around tho titove, annoying the editors by propounding, on an average, twenty qutionna inuiuto, and hand wieluni; llieii' ci 'iiiu id rums Willi w u'li-out sionert and Josh Hihiie; "yoalis" I'lion br addiessed (ho loudest loiler of tho lour; "liiH,tl evening. I would like to see the .dllor." Tlio loafer p.iintel to the M'i'llie, and continued (,-dn.g what t'.ielo Sam should do witb i'nba. The thin man bowed to Hut w i Her, majestically appioa iit d hun and said : " K&ciiao uie nir. M ay 1 pit dow n by J'uii a iiiotiieiit .' 1 in a iranKer heie. My name is . I was Uitn in H .-ami, where HIV peoplo now reside. Put 1 ve be. u hung in tho south for several ye irn, and I am now stay ng in your he. our ltd city a lew days, on the way to Cal-lloiuui Cal-lloiuui for my hualth. 1 know editors, are always bii!v and don't like to be Unbend. I have wuiteii a little ttili.g tlu ailerii.Kin, wliieli I would liLe toMilmil to you. and It it'n Worth i o 1 1 . 1 1 1 u 1 1 c you aro at liberty to put it in jour valuable journal. 1 wrote it lit a hurry, and it may require imc correelioii in tho punctuation, lb-re is the piece. I.'s a few verces on tint -now, with pailicuiar reference to "Yes, Mr. ," aid the idilor, "1 have no doubt it is a very t'uie production, pro-duction, but Midi thine.- do not e,.mc in in y ilepart i iicul. I ne cilv i litor attends to the p liv. II- wilt like to ha,' i-omt Hong on the -no v or U. e n:i irnine. .1 i i fin w it (. i Ii m ." pointing to ihe j-.iveuiie. The loin sii.iiier b, -,ti p udon, tolbxl up his p -etiy. and eat i u d t: euair by the ni le ol ihe u. m-1 n inter. "You are tho geutl. man, I b-heve, Well, I prtMinie you bend sttinei.l', anal 1 faid to ycur a.-ociale. It waa coueeruing MHiiii ot my thoukiit.- on the NiitiW which 1 nurra-.liy .",rall't 1 down m the iqu uf rhyme t;o-alU t;o-alU n.,-ti." "U's a vt ry pU'o auhject," sa.d the young man. "My dear sir, tin jm know that never ( the snow tail without Kv.king at il'.''' i "Yes, "sud the elranger, "I mc! ;u have an appreciation of the granil in nature. 1 1 ike it that you are fond ot poo " "Fond ot pod.-y! Il is victu il and drink to nie. Take pu-try away from , me and 1 won', lu't earo ho.v s-i:i I was c.iKtd to be an anu-l. I re id it a.'l, il. .race Greel-'v's, Brick Potne-roy's, Potne-roy's, Pre-idi i,t ( Irani', Susan V. 1 Aut..ony's, G' o. Wa.t.iiiiiiton C:nid' 1 ail ol the great poets aro in fatui- ;iir to ni" as my own ni:ue; and hues on tiie enow I know noi how to express delight at readi ng them. " Tne t-trangi r opentd hia eyes a 1 i.tllo wide as he lookul at the yuung ' man, and when one of tiie loaltrj, rinhi-d aloud, he acted as if he thought r-niiething was wrong. Then he rpread out the o heels of poetry ; seventeen four-line verses and said il the city editor h id no objection he 1 would read. "Not by any moans," soil thej news-gatherer, reaching out fjr the verses. "I'm not going to permit the j toast to be spoiled. I'll read it wnen I can enjoy its sweetness to the lull , est. Aijne, lock oil in my own room, sa;e from interruption, will I teed my poetic soul. Deprive me not of tins luxury. Jf you shoui-J reel it iLs I glurv, its b'-a:ite. its grandeur, all I -' t. '1 I parenis are orpn uis. Heiven has withheld iro.u iik .v t,i .. I u h i.-i i.-i planted within n.y hrea?l ol o.e. a love for poi in-, that more than compensates com-pensates f.r the alienee of purple and hue limn. The reading of poems bring to nn a pleasure that goiu cou.u not nuy. t wouiu ma; j natl language " He was gone, and ihe four loafers ' were roaring with laughter over the victory. He euti'-ully had "seen 'be point. " A tier awkward ly hitching about in his chair a few monionts, he galhertrJ his "jxiem on tho snow" and hastened from tho sinctum, lor getting to even bid us g.xd night. He probably went in search of another "valuable p iper." If either of our enn temporaries publishes au ode lo tnc snow, seventeen verses in length, we will know that the long-haired stranger has been there. |