A BROKEN HEART.
Tn the absence of any startling items of local news, we bee; to submit (he following lament, reflecting the career and sad end of a newspaper writer, whc, finding it impossible to fill his paper with original matter, died of a broken heart : — "With fingers blackened with ink, with eyelids heavy and red, the local editor sat m his chair, writing for daily bread. The small boy wa3 by his side, the foreman grumbled and swore, and the office boy, like.an ' Oliver Twist, constantly cried for 'more.' He had to 1 dof a, broken leer that had never been brokrn at all ; he had killed off the nearpst frend he had, and torn up a house m a squall.' And now he was at an end — he hadn't an item left, and he bowed his head to a small boy'a scorn like a fellow of
hope bereft. They found him a. corpse that night,, m the streets sodivar and sloppy, with the foreman whispering into his ear, and the small boj' waiting for copy."
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Marlborough Express, Volume XI, Issue 875, 13 December 1876, Page 7
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177A BROKEN HEART. Marlborough Express, Volume XI, Issue 875, 13 December 1876, Page 7
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