Poetry and Prose.—“I say, Pomp, wat be de diffrence ’ween poetry and de wat you call plank verse?”
“Why, I gib you something, Sip, I think will be lustratious of de subject:
‘Go down to mill-dam
And fall down slam’—
dat be poetry; but
‘Go down to mill-dam,
And fall down whapp’—
dat be blank verse.”
Good.—“Bill, lend us your knife.” “Can’t; haven’t got any; besides, want to use it myself.”