And though you wring your Hands and wonder Why

Such slipshod Work the Magazines will buy,

Don't grumble at the Editor, for he

Must serve the Public, e'en as You and I.

LXXIII

With Puck's first joke, they did the last Life feed,

And there of Judge's Stories sowed the Seed:

And the first jokelet that Joe Miller wrote

The Sunday Comic-Section readers read.

LXXIV