Show the pilgrim alfred boyee the exponent of pay ing poetry told a good story at princeton one morning he said my work was interrupted by a westerner he rushed in on me enthusiastically he bruised my hand with the power of bis cordial clasp he made me sit down and write my name 50 times on a sheet of foolscap that he drew from his pocket he wanted to distribute be explained my autograph among all bis friends he even urged me to w rite a poem for him to dash a poem off while he looked on this falling he would not go till I 1 had read him a halt dozen selections from my works mr noyes sighed and all the time he ended the duffer called me boyes t |