AN EDITOR'S DREAM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 655, 30 December 1880, Page 2

AN EDITOR'S DREAM.

'(Press Gazette.) * Once upon a time—as the,, fairy tale* have lj;—a locaredilor, relieveaVfor a time from the , importunities'''of foreman r printer, and'worried bjr'a" masß*of,miS'» ( placed adjeotives > wrongly /spelled ~ nouns with wluch'a country had favored him, fell rial chair, and; dreamed quitted the 'world" of scißsors. Whilst on h» unknown journey he approached a statelycity, and,knocked for admittance at the'gleaming-gates. The only response he'met was a «core of heads appearing above the v wall on each side of the gate. , On catching sight of him the owners of the heads Bet up a dismal howl. One yelled out, " Why the blank space didn't you notice the big egg my, chicken laid ?" Before he could find words' to, reply, ahother shrieked,/' Why didn\you leave it out of the paper as I asked youiwheni was fined five shillings fpr not keeping sober 2" and another, " Why the deuce didn't you write a par about the paint on my new gate 1" Whatever/answer he was going to frame to this appeal was'fcut short by the following query ;—" What did you spell my name wrong in the programme for?" and the miserable,man turned to flee, when he was rooted ground by the terrible demand-r" What did you put my marriage among f the deaths for rand he was on the" point 'of saying the foreman did it, when a voica madly cried out/" You spoiled the sale of my horse by publishing that runaway/' andauother said, "If I catch you 1 alone I'll lick you for What you saidvabouti me when I was before the Police Court 1" and another, "Why didn't you show up'the school system when I told you 1" This was followed by the voice of a female, hysterically' proclaiming, " This is ithe brute who blotched my poetry and made me ridiculous I" Whereupon hundreds of loud 1 Voices screamed, '{Where is my article? Give me back my article 1" and, in the midst of the horrid din the ipoor wretoh awoke, perspiring at every, pore, and screaming for help. ,