Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1911 — Poet and Fool. [ARTICLE]

Poet and Fool.

This story of Alexis Plron, the French poet and epigrammist, is told by the writer of “French Men of Letters.” Plron was unfortunate enough to be arrested one night by a watchman in the streets of Paris, and was taken the following morning before the lleutenint of police, who haughtily interrogated him concerning his business or profession. “I am a poet,” was the reply. J “Oh, Ho! a poet, are you?” said the official. “I have a brother who is a poet.” ’ ,X “Then we are quits,” rejoined Plron, “for I have a brother who is a fool.”—King.