Show the subscriber worn and weary seedy and sad an editor eat him down mid work and rubbish sg paper and dust with many it wrinkled frown he khen he thought of his paper bills his rent and board and wood and groaned when the copy fiena yelled out be there in the doorway stood what do ikney he said an editor live air and water glory and debt till his toilsome lifa is done ill stop their every one till their honest debts they po y I 1 and ruark their names off tit 1 nailing book forever and for 9 e I 1 take this copy double lead and marl with a pencil blue and send to al who are in arrears from ten years down to two to the copy boy he a penciled scrawl of straggling wild all tangle anat le anand tall when scare 0 a fortnight bad its length bf 11 tired out hours away there came to th e fiealt of ditora glad one day aly d lefter arom gordons mill in a hand both weak and old but out of it fell a treasured trea surel coin of solid beautiful gold I 1 the letter claimed his interest then and so be slowly dmd the scrawled but s ample ad bon cot words and this is what they paid dear editor I 1 read the marked and sent to me so I 1 send you this dieca of goldahl golda hd ask if you will agree to sand my pap er rig lit along and forget the debt I 1 owed F e I 1 ve took your piper for awen ty year and po jar its I 1 knowel anever owed no man a cent fill about year ago when my poor and the crops wis bad aad laid we love and times babul never 4 cen the same to little liz and me for we are all left blind and since my eyes cant bee she always reads the paper find ita been our only cheer and brought us all the news and fun haffor many a year im getti nold and feeble now and I 1 down with the and theres the paper deft tome just that and little liz we colln bear to lose it now its been with us so long till its very name it music like an happy song I 1 this twenty dollar piece of will pay for all I 1 owe I 1 nd what is over and above just keep audret it go toward paying bett for the paper till a and to liz when I 1 sin called away I 1 glad and thankful the editor was ache axhe knew that there was one who loved and could ap preci ste the work that boh addone ile felt that life was not in and smiled through hapak tears and then on lookhe broto paid up for twenty years andrews adham |