SHORTFELLOW SUMS UP LONGFELLOW.
MILES STANDISH, old Puritan soldier, courts gal Priscilla by proxy;
Gal likes the proxy the best, so Miles, in a rage, takes and hooks it.
Folks think he's killed, but he ain't, and comes back, as a friend, to the wedding,
If you call this ink-Standish stuff poetry, Punch will soon reel you off Miles.
Shirley Brooks on "The Courtship of Miles Standish."