TO CONTRIBUTORS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 721, 31 December 1903, Page 15

TO CONTRIBUTORS.

Write upon pages of a single size, Cross you t’s and neatly dot your i’si : -On one side only let your lines be seen — Both sides filled up betray- a verdant green. Correct, yes,‘i ecorrect, all that you write, And let your ink be black, your paper white, For gpongjy foolscap, if a muddy blue, Betrays a mind of the same dismal hue. Punctuate carefully, for on this score Nothing peoclaims a practised writer more. Then send it off,., and lest it merit lack, Enclose, a stamp with which to send it back ; But first, pay all the postage on it, too, ' For editors look black on "threepence due.’’ And murmur as they run the effusion o’er, “ A shabby fellow and a wretched bore! ” Yet, ..eye I :it goes, take of it a copy clean-— Writers, should own a copying machine ; Little ft heyknow the time that’s spent, and.care, In hunting -‘‘. copy ” vanished—-who knows w&iero ? . : Bear .this in mind, observe it. to the end, And- jXou shall make the editor your friend.'- ‘ !■" ■<