A lesson which the press should teach
And study!
Owen Seaman.
JOHN JENKINS
JOHN JENKINS, in an evil day, felt suddenly inclined
To perpetrate a novel of an unobtrusive kind;
It held no “Strange Adventures” or “Mysterious Events,”
To terrify its readers with exciting accidents.
“I have never,” said John Jenkins, “in my uneventful life,
Taken part in revolutions or in sanguinary strife;