A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 1, 7 January 1893, Page 24

A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE.

A few weeks ago a parcel arrived at this office, addressed to the editor, and labelled ‘ Spring Poems.’ With a muttered adjective he commenced to unknot the cord, inwardly deciding he would have to obtain the services of a ‘ Cussin’-Editor ’ if writers intended sending poems in this wholesale manner.

Upon opening the parcel the cheerful smile which broke out upon his countenance was w or th framing.

There—resting upon cotton-wool—were twelve fresh eggs, accompanied by a card bearing the inscription : — ‘ Merry lays, by a hen ’ The shock was so great that it caused him a few days’ indisposition, but he has now recovered. We tried one of the eggs upon the office-boy, and in expressing his opinion, he, by a remarkable coincidence, pronounced it ‘ a poem.’ Our Editor is now prepared to apologise for all the nasty mean things he has said about spring poets in general, and also sends hearty thanks to this poet in particular. At the same time he remarked, ‘lf poets always turned out such work they would have a much better chance of acceptance.