Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1917 — A Poet's Beginning. [ARTICLE]

A Poet's Beginning.

Richard Le GalHenne was talking rather bitterly In a New York case about the decline of poetry. A shabby young man slunk out, and Mr. Le GalHenne said: “There goes Quiller. I knew he’d be a poet. He was found, you know, in a basket on a doorstep.” “But,” said a photoplay writer, bewildered —“but what’s that got —” “It was a waste basket he was found in,” Mr. Le GalHenne explained.