Life — February 17, 1898 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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RHYME OF RHYMES, A youso Cleveland man claims to have been placed ~No, no, madame!" cried the young man: “po. o} in a very embarrassing predicament one evening lat wouldo’t kiss you for the world.” i He was calling on a certain young lady who resides in Then in his desire to escape he started tcant vy a fashionable downtown apartment-house, and as she hap- supposed location of the door, pened to have gone out with her mother, but was expected * Don't move,” cried the lady, “or I'll serears.”” to return shortly, he said he would wait in the parlor, He halted for a moment, then softly crept » wid’ 1 ind," The servant ushered him in, and he was surprised to find wall again. 6 many mortal mei that another caller was also waiting. It was a lady caller, Thear you.” cried the lady; “don’t you dare * (when one retlects) ‘twere kind a tall, somewhat angular person of questionable age, with near me rhyme as if “agen.” white gloves and a vei e black hat. “Madame.” said the exasperated youth Left alone with this lady the young man felt a little wants to harma hair of your head.” U never met a single soul uneasy. He hadn't contracted for a silent téte-d-téte © That’s just what the burglar said the night ourtees Who spoke of © wind” as“ wined,” with alone female in a strange bouse. For atime he sat was robbed,” moaned the lady. rt we use it, on the whole, stiMy quiet. Then, as the silence grew oppressiv * But I must find the door,” said the youth, © Wec: ‘o rhyme to “find” and “blind. and bu: himself inspecting the pictures and bri “ac. ay indefinitely in the dark.” As he moved along one side of the apartment, kee snapped the lady. Bh safe distance from the stranger in the big hat, he bap- you dare to come this way. If you do ['ll stab your fey pened to approach the electric button that controlled th witha hatpin! And don’t you think you can fool m. | light in the room. He had his eyes glued to a water-color hear your miserable squeaky shoes every step you tale aanging on the wall close by, when, to his amazement, th Perhaps,” said the youth, for his sense of liumorr lights suddenly went out, leaving the apartment in total rinning to return, “it would be well to tike Wild on the mountain peak,the wind its old refrain, hosts of mortals who have sinned. And fain would sin again. "to that agen,” When peop e us pain In poetry, nine times in te Inch to “Spain” or * Dane. Ob, which is wrong or which is right Ob, which is right or wron darkness Of course, it was owing to an accident at the power- ys no,” cried the lady; “don't you dare to” house, but the young man didn’t know that, and naturally ri ‘outh felt his way forward, guides! as to expected the lights would immediately flash up again, lady’s location by sundry sniffs and starts of «lary hold tha » rhyme to “ prove An instant after the eclipse set in there was a sha after he had run squarely into the mantel, ard be gasp from the direction of the lady with the big hat against a screen, and tumbled over a footstool ind sew *You—you did that a-purpose,” she shrilly remarked, chairs, he Gaally found the door-knob and bonnced *Tsaw you standing by the button.” I. Tt was pitch dark, but almost immestiatels le ‘The young man wiped the perspiration from his brow, saw a servant coming up the stairs with a lamp. This was our learned fathers’ wont Tassure you, madame,” he sai Thad nothing “Show me the way out of this,” said the vouth.ss! In prehistoric tim todowith it. It must be some—some Lapse in the current the servant escorted him to the front door. As We follow it, or if we don’t, or something." onto the sidewalk he drew a long and refreshir We oft run short of rhymes. ‘ou did it.” continued the shrill voice, * because you And he insists upon calling it a narrow escay i —Clereland Plain Dest The sounds in prose familiar, quite. Or those we meet in song ! Yet in the ancient lyric groov We meet them rhyming —Andrew Lang, in Longmans Magazine wanted to kiss m Yor sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. The Inter- Ecnorean Acuxrs—Mesera, Brentano, $7 Avenue de l'Opera, national News Company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, Paris; Saarbach's News Exchange, 1 Clarastrasse, Mayeace, London, E. C., England, Aczxts. Germany, Agents for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 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