But her Piping duz not pa,
Why? Bekaus her meter’s rong.
Tillie mite reverse the phraze
’Til her muse is neerer ripe,
And insted of piping lays
Tri her hand at laying pipe.
JONAH.
But Jonah is equally as hard on Trotwood, as the following unique note came to me in a batch of proof:
dear mister trotwood:—
I think your writing is plain, but the printer, says it is a cross between a chinese laundry ticket and the Lord’s prayer ritten in arabic. They sent one sheet back to-day and i red it and it reeds like this—“The Hal family is a very slow bunch, and unless they cross the blood with a Texas Mustang pretty soon, they will only be fit for water wagons and apple carts, and anny boddy would go to sleep waiting for them to go around a half mile track.”