“And is mine one?” asked Benny. “Nay, not so,”
Replied the fat man. Benny spoke more low,
But cheerily still; and said, “I pray, if not too late,
Write me as one who’d love a consulate.”
The fat man wrote and vanished. The next night
He came again, with a great flickering light,
And showed the names. Ben Folsom looked,
And lo! for Sheffield, England, he was booked.
Albany Express. U.S.A.
[Mr. Benjamin Folsom is a cousin of Mrs. President Cleveland (United States), and has had the management of her affairs. Soon after her marriage to the President, the newspapers began to mention him as likely to have an appointment under the Government, and in a short time he was named United States Consul for Sheffield, England.]