Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — Presumption Rebuked. [ARTICLE]

Presumption Rebuked.

Samuel Rogers, the versatile wit banker and poet used to gather at his 'famous breakfasts the most brilliant minds in Great Britain or among visiting strangers. One of the most frequent guests was Douglas Jerrold. famous as dramatist satirist and one of the “fixed” stars of Punch. His impromptus and retorts were as brilliant and sudden as lightning. On. a certain occasion a recent poem of Victor Hugo’B was under discussion, and a fledgling poet, who was a scion of a noble house, drawled: “I have Just written a poem on the same subject. Hugo and I row in the same boat you know.” , A “Yes, yes,” adluerrold, with a witherlhg- sneer, “but not with the sgme sculls.* » v-. v .