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Show The Pilgrim. ; Alfred Noyes, the exponent of "paying "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 ol his 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, - he explained, my autograph among all his friends. He even urged me to write a poem for him to dash a poem ? off while he looked on. This failing, he would not go till I had read him a half dozen selections from my i- works." P Mr. Noyes sighed. "And all the time," he ended, "the duffer called me Boyes." |