Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — Yawp. [ARTICLE]

Yawp.

-These yawps, you know, — : ——- Are chopped-off verse, For better or Perhaps for worse Some lines are of a lengthy «ort, And then . gFAsaiya, Again We cut ’em short. It doesn’t matter ’bout the Rhyme. We put one in if we Have time. This method was doped out, they say, By Lampton, yclept W. J. A bard can write this stuff by jing, And not half try. And if Lampton gets money for this sort of thing, Why shouldn’t IT —Pittsburg Post.