Deservedly Snubbed.

Otago Witness, Issue 2565, 13 May 1903, Page 72

Deservedly Snubbed.

A lady wrote a few verses which, by dint of intrigue and engineering, she had managed to get accepted by a. third-rate weekly paper. The.-c verses fine had paid the loral stationer to issue >.i a small volume, which she called by some such title as "Love Buck of Pa-^ion," and on the strength of .his book (of which <no out outside her town hail over heard) she expected to be received everywhere as a literary celebrity. A rising novelist who happened to be in that part jf the country was introduced to the local poete?s, his hostess, with tht conventional society desire to say the pleasant and pretty, if insincere thing, remarking: "Oh, Mr F , let me present you to a sister pcet, Mr? VY — — , cf whose charming book of poem.), ' Love Buds of Passion,' you will probably have heard." F made I'm hot bow, said he- was delighted to moot Airs V , and asked her with much show of interest when a new b< ok of pocm= from her pen might b© ex-rK-rted. "Not for a time at anyrnte," said tho gratified lady. '•Writing from inspiration, aii I do, one must wait, of course, till the divine impulse comes." "Of course, of course," nrciuiesoed F After she had hold forth vaingloriously about all the kind thine* that had been said cf "Love Buds of Passion," the lady inquired condescendingly: v "Did you ever write yourself?" "A little,'' replied the novelist modestly. "And what did you say your name was?'' '"My name i.s FF — — " "I have not hoard of you before. Mr F ," said the lady, with oppressive franikllCi';. "Xo, madam." said the novelist, "nor I of you. But you mitrht at lear-t have protruded yon had, as I did in your ca.?e. Good afternoon."