Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1913 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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TRAGEDY OF A LOST LINE. "This patient looks harmless.” “He is. That’s the one We call the sonnetteer.” _ --- “And did making sonnets drive him insane?” “No. lam told his trouble originated In the fact that he wrote a peculiarly beautiful sonnet called ’On Visiting the Scenes of Happy Days,’ and that the printer accidentally omitted a, line. When the poet saw he had put his name to a thirteen-line ’sonnet* he went stark mad.” “Unhappy fellow. He has a kind face.” “Yes. But just tell him you are a printer—then jump back and hear him gnash his teeth!”