They laughed, and joked, and cut their capers,
As they read together the morning papers.
IX.
These papers, of course, were filled with the fun—
The Tribune, the World, the Times and the Sun,
Each gave to the facts a different hue,
And each one proclaimed its own statement true;
Their big black bulletins chalked o’er in white,
Gave all the latest news from morn till night;