Show REBUKED THE CHEAT GREAT WRITER american wa was not awed by grouchy P poet bet laureate A writer in harper s weekly bring to light an interesting anecdote of tennyson which well illustrates the singular habits of the great laureate in his intercourse with his friends the poet was not only brusque and rough but he was domineering and exacting and most other men were vero afraid of film lm but an american america n schoolmaster who for many years maintained a great intimacy with him had no fear in his heart and sat and smoked on an equality with the eign singer by Farring ford fireside one evening says the writer when the two were thus together tennyson said that he would depart from his custom and narrate a per bonal experience but he had suffered a good deal from repetitions of hia his tales by those to whom he had told them and he would be obliged to ask his friend never to repeat what he was about to hear bear the american smoked on tor for a few seconds while tennyson waited for the promise and then he said my lord in my coun try a gentleman would never make that request of another gentleman ahm said the poet and looked out of eyes that wondered it the quiet smoker opposite knew how much he bed d said then he told the story |