Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — Padding. [ARTICLE]

Padding.

“Yes, it is a fairly good poem,” says the carpding critic, after a hasty perusal of one of Longfellow’s efforts. “It Is really of merit, hut the trouble with It is that it )a aq greatly padded.’? , ’**- “Padded? Why, it doesn’t appeal' to me to have an : unnecessary word in It. I dbn’t see where you could omit a lifie'or a stanza Without spoiling rhe sense of it,” replies the other person. “But can’t you see'that it is’filled out with ‘Excelsior?’”