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On New Lines

"Thank you so much, Mr. Dard,” |said George.. "I'm indeed very grateful to you, I hope that the next communication. I have the [honour to make to you will meeti

with your approval.”

A month later came George'a next effort:

sée ::

- sond,"

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(Continued From

Trusting my importunity will not

offend,

Three years ago a payment Inst

· you made –

Oh, deign unto this matter to

attend.

Guselo,

"Good lord!" exclaimed

;

Honoured Sir, upon my books 1"he's gone Omar Khayyam. I'd better see him as soon as possible." A small account that's due from The next day he found Slimp

you to me;

waiting for him, but he was stag- One-twenty-two pounds, Ofteen Sered at the change in appearance shillings I make it— home of the once most orthodox'tailor." You'd like to pay me something

off, I take it.

On receipt of this Gusate hur ried to the telephone,

"All you want, Slimp", sald Gussie,is a banjo and a ticket to Margate Sands. What's the idea? You can't run a tailor's shop in an outfit like that'

"That's botter, Slimp," said he "Iambic pentameter is more... up George looked at him in dignified your street than a ballad measure." fashion,

"You like it?" said George grate "Mr. Darb," said he, “1 am no fully,

longer a tailor; I'am & poet. In "Oh, you're getting on. But how my house at High Wycombe I have the Hades did you run up my bili furnished an attic with a cheap to one-twenty-two-fifteen ?" {bed, a deal table, and a few soap- "This way, sir. That last morn-box, where I may in the typical ing suit of yours was nine guineas, surroundings of the struggling poet And the previous account was one meditate on the higher plane." one-three-six-and-eight. It brought "And you write poetry?" asked the total up to one-two-two-fifteen-Gussie. jand-eight.

"It is my one aim in life," washawk, the enemy of game, But the inclusion of

daughter "Earnie" qualified, as you see,

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have made two redundant syllables me to Cuddley I have felt inflamed in the line. So with great re. with a desire to shine among the luctance I cut it out."

dis-i poets. Indeed, I was very

"Saving me eightpence. It's an tressed to discover that poetry had ll wind, Blimp-I've written reams been going on for so long and that of near-poetry, but this is the first I had only heard of it yesterday,

a so to speak." time poetry has ever paid ma dividend. ___ Right-oh, Slimp. Carry

"But what about the business?" "Business?" repeated on the work and stick to Cuddley's

George best-seller."

with a gesture of distaste.

"DI1

"Yes, sir. I'm giving it the Homer think of business, or closest attention,"

Petrarch, or Keats? I am giving up the business.

selling Chugby and Slimp.".

"That's the stuff. And one thing more. You'll find Old Man Brown Ing a good model for making dif ficult rhymes. He put across some sporters in his time."

"What? Selling it?"

I'm

:

Arkansas' ·governor, Futrell, #tipulated that hunters should qualify for quail-shooting. licenses by killing at least

Bla immediately

one

FLUCTUATIONS OF NEW YEAR'S DAY

Many Alterations Of Calendar

INCOME TAX YEAR HAS

--SPECIAL DATE

In the early days of English: "Yes, sir. As a going concern. history New Year's Day fell on Mullett; my foreman cutter. has.

Con-

the

"Browning you said, sir?" been with me thirty-five years, man December 25. William the answered George. "I'll take a note and boy, He can receive the queror ordered it to be altered to of it, and I'm much obliged.' ' clients as well as do the cutting out, January 1 because that was

"Very well. And, by the way, So I am looking for somebody with day of his coronation, but a little while afterwards. March 25° - was 10th Apr. Slimp, get out some patterns of capital to take over and run the chosen.

woolly cloth for a warm overcoat business while I retire to cultivate for flying. I'm going to Sweden the Muses."

23rd Mar.

Thurs,,

Thurs.

21st Feb. 21st Mar.

Wed

next week."

"Yes, sir."

The Gregorian calendar of 1582 "Let me look at your books," said made January 1. New Year's Day [in all Catholic countries. Germliny, Gussie,

Denmark and Sweden accepted it Gussie spent a month in Sweden. With pleasure."- and when he returned he found

The books were brought and in 1700, and England finally bet that he was in need of a new even. Gussie went over them carefully. tled on January 1 in 1753. .. ing-dress suit.

"Look here," said he to George. "I'm going off to have a palaver Friendly Islands, which are over 3rd Apr. familiar inner room, he found the with some friends. In a couple of 12 hours ahead of Greenwich. foreman-cutter waiting to receive hours I'll be back with an offer." Then the hells ring out across the

Thurs.,

7th Mar

When he was ushered into the

him;

"Where's Slimp?" he asked. "I'm sorry, sir," was the reply, but Mr. Slimp has not come up to town to-day. Anything I can do, str-"

Actually he returned in little over an hour,

George looked up from a sheet of manuscript.

"Pardon me," said he, “but would

New Year comes first to the

world following the path of the sun...until at last the Now Year

reaches its anal point-the islands of Samos.

The Jewish New Year falls 'on') you mind telling me if a poet's September 28, and the beginning Gussie stated what he wanted licence would entitle him to rhyme of the year 1985 to us is 5695 to thein; the first year of their ex- and soon he was studying patterns 'amour' with 'glamour"?" of cloth.

"Only on a Christmas card or a lendar corresponded to 8761 B. C. "I rather hoped to see Slimp him. memorial notice," answered Gussie. The Income Tax Year begins on self,', he told the deputy,

"Now laten. I can offer you April 6-and has done since an "He will be here to-morrow," ex- $10,000 for the business, lock, stock Act of Parilament in 1798. plained the latter. "He has decid- and barrel. That includes the 4th Mared to come to town only once a|

|book-debts of £7,000, a lot of which week in future. He's too busy."

you'll admit are no good.. I'd man Says Bir Raymond Unwin, the tion my own, för sample.” "Busy? What at?"

famous city designer: "It is far "Writing poems, sir, Mr. Slimp.

"£10,000 will satisfy me," said less expensive to replace slum told me that he had discovered ar Slimp. And the deal was made areas with clean, healthful living 14th Mar unexpected vela of poetry within]

In the humble garret above his quarters than to run up stagger him and that he was going to lovely residence George Slimp 1 ing police, fire, and sanitation

21st Feb.

Wad.,

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⠀⠀ For example, here is his latest note to the Right Hon. the Earl of Bigby, whom he knew at Eton.

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