A long account of a foreign drouth,
A lot of changes in local ads,
The report of a fight between drunken cads,
And odds and ends and smoke and talk,—
A reporter drawing cartoons in chalk
On the dirty wall, while others laughed,
And one wretch whistled, and all of them chaffed.
But the editor leaned far back in his chair;
He ran his hands through his iron-gray hair,
And stole ten minutes from work to write