OBITUARY OF A WESTERN EDITOR.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1480, 7 November 1874, Page 6 (Supplement)

OBITUARY OF A WESTERN EDITOR.

Ye editor sat in his ricketfcy c y r worried as worried could be, f or Devil was grinning before him th and l copy' ye Devil said he. re' Oh, ye editor grabbed his big quil] pen, and spluttered ye ink so free th f his manuscript looked like a war m a when—'Take this/to the Devil apake if' He scribbled and scratched tb.rou»h the live-long day, no rest nor refreshment had he—for ye Devil kept con stantly coming that way, and howling for more 'cop-ee.' s

Day after day he scissored and wrote a slaying the whole countree; while ye Devil kept piping his single note-'i, little more outside cop-ec i' .

And when ye men in ye newsroom heard ye noise of ye fray, ye sound of ye blow and a blasphemous word, {H e ' a raising the Devil," say they.

And oft when a man with a grievance came in, ye editor man to see, he'd turn his back with a word of sin—'Go talk to ye Devil sayed he V And ever and oft, when proof of his work ye proprietor wanted to see,'Ye proof shall be shown by my personal clerk—you must go tc ye Devil" says lie And thus was he destined throagl all his life, by this spirit tormented to be; in hunger and poverty, sorrow and strife, always close to ye Devil was he,

Ye editor died. , . . . But ye Devil lived on !' And ye force of life's habits we see; for the editor's breatli no sooner was gone,'than straight to ye Devil went lie.