What’s sauce for the bus-driving gander,
Is sauce for the quill-driving goose.
We’ll found (because empty our purse is)
A Lyrische Dichterverein;
And we won’t write any more verses,
Under 50 pfennig a line.[10]
[9]“Seventy lyric poets in Germany have formed a trade’s union, and agreed not to sell their verses for less than half a mark a line.”—Daily paper.
[10]The author encloses his name and address, not for publication, but in order that the editor may know where to send the three dollars and thirty-six cents—twenty-eight lines at twelve cents.
Psychology
Dr. Jaeger has propounded the theory that the Soul is an emanation emitted by animals, and is the cause of the odour characteristic of each species. Cf. in Lives of the Saints, “the odour of sanctity”; also supra, page 17.