Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . 4. Divorced. Cheese It. A PIECE of irony sufficiently delicate to be worthy of quotation** recently came from a New York critic. An aspiring youngpoet, who had met the critic in question, wrote a satire in emulationof Homers Battle of the Frogs and Mice. The young poet thoughthe would go one better than Homer, and described in most realisticstyle the warfare between two factions of mites inhabiting a piece ofcheese. He sent the manuscript to the critic with a request for that dis-tinguished persons opinion. In a few days the an
Caricature; wit and humor of a nation in picture, song and story . 4. Divorced. Cheese It. A PIECE of irony sufficiently delicate to be worthy of quotation** recently came from a New York critic. An aspiring youngpoet, who had met the critic in question, wrote a satire in emulationof Homers Battle of the Frogs and Mice. The young poet thoughthe would go one better than Homer, and described in most realisticstyle the warfare between two factions of mites inhabiting a piece ofcheese. He sent the manuscript to the critic with a request for that dis-tinguished persons opinion. In a few days the answer came. My dear sir, wrote the critic, I have read your satire and amdelighted with it. You are worthy to be called the Gorgon-Zola ofliterature. Mistletoe helps the man who helps
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