SOMEBODY HIT HARD.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 157, 13 February 1869, Page 4

SOMEBODY HIT HARD.

To the Editor of the Marlborough Express. Sir, —Here is a good hit at that annoying class of writers of newspaper paragraphs, letters, and other productions, who are not contented with writing and publishing, but must be ever reading them and annoying their friends with every production that flows from their pens : A Famous Hen’s rny story’s theme, Who ne’er was known to tire Of laying eggs, but then she’d scream So loud o’er every egg, The house must be on fire. A Turkey-cock, who ruled the walk — A wiser bird, and older. Could bear’t no more, so off did stalk Eight to the hen, and told her—- “ Madame, that scream, I apprehend Does nothing to the matter. It surely helps the eggs no whit, Then lay your egg and done with it; I pray you madame, as a friend, Cease that superfluous clatter. You know not how’t goes thro’ my head.” “Humph ! very likely,” madame said ; Then, proudly putting forth a leg—- “ Uneducated barn yard fowl. You know no more than any owl, The noble privilege, and praise Of authorship in modern days I’ll tell you why I do it ; First, you perceive, I lay my egg, And then—review it! I am, Yours &c. Durante Vita. Havelock, Feb. 1.