Show ills ill idea of poetry A celebrated J journalist ourn alist once concluded an important leading article with a care fully corn composed posed and eloquent peroration to his dismay however a printers IIII 1111 idiosyncrasy 0 caused his peroration to appear to the world cut up in ili separate lines and posing as a poetical quotation the irate journalist conscious that some ct of his bent best work had been bp polled oiled rushed wildly into the editors sanctum and pointing to the printed muddle excitedly exclaimed look here at this see what th that a t fiendish printer haa has done lie has ruined d utterly ruined my work ill 1 the editor with that serene compos composure are and affability which it ii so characteristic of hii his race listen listened cd quietly to a recital of the printers c crimea rimes and then gravely arose 1 I 1 will see justice done my good fellow he murmured and then armed with a of the paper strode into the com composing pow room jenkins Jenk liw did you set up this A compositor of tho the good old school came forward yes sir that Is some of my work and very flue work it Is too e exclaimed x the editor do you know that this is gome some of mr S Is s finest prose and you ton have been thick headed enough to bet act it up for poetry prose is s it sir air muttered the compositor well I 1 looked at that passage and I 1 read it for fo lards and I 1 read it backards and I 1 read it likewise upside down but I 1 make head nor tall nor common sense out of it so I 1 thought it must be poetry and printed it as such 1 london tit bits |