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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390935" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Little Mack</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh,<br>We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O gosh!<br>He lives here in Mizzoora where the people are so set<br>In ante-bellum notions that they vote for Jackson yet;<br>But the paper he is running makes the rusty fossils swear,--<br>The smartest, likeliest paper that is printed anywhere!<br>And, best of all, the paragraphs are pointed as a tack,<br> And that's because they emanate<br> From little Mack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In architecture he is what you'd call a chunky man,<br>As if he'd been constructed on the summer cottage plan;<br>He has a nose like Bonaparte; and round his mobile mouth<br>Lies all the sensuous languor of the children of the South;<br>His dealings with reporters who affect a weekly bust<br>Have given to his violet eyes a shadow of distrust;<br>In glorious abandon his brown hair wanders back<br> From the grand Websterian forehead<br> Of little Mack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No matter what the item is, if there's an item in it,<br>You bet your life he's on to it and nips it in a minute!<br>From multifarious nations, countries, monarchies, and lands,<br>From Afric's sunny fountains and India's coral strands,<br>From Greenland's icy mountains and Siloam's shady rills,<br>He gathers in his telegrams, and Houser pays the bills;<br>What though there be a dearth of news, he has a happy knack<br> Of scraping up a lot of scoops,<br> Does little Mack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And learning? Well he knows the folks of every tribe and age<br>That ever played a part upon this fleeting human stage;<br>His intellectual system's so extensive and so greedy<br>That, when it comes to records, he's a walkin' cyclopedy;<br>For having studied (and digested) all the books a-goin',<br>It stands to reason he must know about all's worth a-knowin'!<br>So when a politician with a record's on the track,<br> We're apt to hear some history<br> From little Mack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when a fellow-journalist is broke and needs a twenty,<br>Who's allus ready to whack up a portion of his plenty?<br>Who's allus got a wallet that's as full of sordid gain<br>As his heart is full of kindness and his head is full of brain?<br>Whose bowels of compassion will in-va-ri-a-bly move<br>Their owner to those courtesies which plainly, surely prove<br>That he's the kind of person that never does go back<br> On a fellow that's in trouble?<br> Why, little Mack!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've heard 'em tell of Dana, and of Bonner, and of Reid,<br>Of Johnnie Cockerill, who, I'll own, is very smart indeed;<br>Yet I don't care what their renown or influence may be,<br>One metropolitan exchange is quite enough for me!<br>So keep your Danas, Bonners, Reids, your Cockerills, and the rest,<br>The woods is full of better men all through this woolly West;<br>For all that sleek, pretentious, Eastern editorial pack<br> We wouldn't swap the shadow of<br> Our little Mack!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q>
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We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O gosh!
He lives here in Mizzoora where the people are so set
In ante-bellum notions that they vote for Jackson yet;
But the paper he is runn..."></div>
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