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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390953" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81<br>A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.<br>His name wuz Cantell Whoppers, 'nd he wuz a sight ter view<br>Ez he walked inter the orfice 'nd inquired fer work ter do.<br>Thar warn't no places vacant then,--fer be it understood,<br>That wuz the time when talent flourished at that altitood;<br>But thar the stranger lingered, tellin' Raymond 'nd the rest<br>Uv what perdigious wonders he could do when at his best,<br>Till finally he stated (quite by chance) that he hed done<br>A heap uv work with Dana on the Noo York Sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wall, that wuz quite another thing; we owned that ary cuss<br>Who'd worked f'r Mr. Dana must be good enough fer us!<br>And so we tuk the stranger's word 'nd nipped him while we could,<br>For if we didn't take him we knew John Arkins would;<br>And Cooper, too, wuz mouzin' round fer enterprise 'nd brains,<br>Whenever them commodities blew in across the plains.<br>At any rate we nailed him, which made ol' Cooper swear<br>And Arkins tear out handfuls uv his copious curly hair;<br>But we set back and cackled, 'nd bed a power uv fun<br>With our man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It made our eyes hang on our cheeks 'nd lower jaws ter drop,<br>Ter hear that feller tellin' how ol' Dana run his shop:<br>It seems that Dana wuz the biggest man you ever saw,--<br>He lived on human bein's, 'nd preferred to eat 'em raw!<br>If he hed Democratic drugs ter take, before he took 'em,<br>As good old allopathic laws prescribe, he allus shook 'em.<br>The man that could set down 'nd write like Dany never grew,<br>And the sum of human knowledge wuzn't half what Dana knew;<br>The consequence appeared to be that nearly every one<br>Concurred with Mr. Dana of the Noo York Sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This feller, Cantell Whoppers, never brought an item in,--<br>He spent his time at Perrin's shakin' poker dice f'r gin.<br>Whatever the assignment, he wuz allus sure to shirk,<br>He wuz very long on likker and all-fired short on work!<br>If any other cuss had played the tricks he dared ter play,<br>The daisies would be bloomin' over his remains to-day;<br>But somehow folks respected him and stood him to the last,<br>Considerin' his superior connections in the past.<br>So, when he bilked at poker, not a sucker drew a gun<br>On the man who 'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wall, Dana came ter Denver in the fall uv '83.<br>A very different party from the man we thought ter see,--<br>A nice 'nd clean old gentleman, so dignerfied 'nd calm,<br>You bet yer life he never did no human bein' harm!<br>A certain hearty manner 'nd a fulness uv the vest<br>Betokened that his sperrits 'nd his victuals wuz the best;<br>His face wuz so benevolent, his smile so sweet 'nd kind,<br>That they seemed to be the reflex uv an honest, healthy mind;<br>And God had set upon his head a crown uv silver hair<br>In promise uv the golden crown He meaneth him to wear.<br>So, uv us boys that met him out'n Denver, there wuz none<br>But fell in love with Dana uv the Noo York Sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he came to Denver in that fall uv '83,<br>His old friend Cantell Whoppers disappeared upon a spree;<br>The very thought uv seein' Dana worked upon him so<br>(They hadn't been together fer a year or two, you know),<br>That he borrered all the stuff he could and started on a bat,<br>And, strange as it may seem, we didn't see him after that.<br>So, when ol' Dana hove in sight, we couldn't understand<br>Why he didn't seem to notice that his crony wa'n't on hand;<br>No casual allusion, not a question, no, not one,<br>For the man who'd &quot;worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We broke it gently to him, but he didn't seem surprised,<br>Thar wuz no big burst uv passion as we fellers had surmised.<br>He said that Whoppers wuz a man he 'd never heerd about,<br>But he mought have carried papers on a Jarsey City route;<br>And then he recollected hearin' Mr. Laffan say<br>That he'd fired a man named Whoppers fur bein' drunk one day,<br>Which, with more likker underneath than money in his vest,<br>Had started on a freight-train fur the great 'nd boundin' West,<br>But further information or statistics he had none<br>Uv the man who'd &quot;worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We dropped the matter quietly 'nd never made no fuss,--<br>When we get played for suckers, why, that's a horse on us!--<br>But every now 'nd then we Denver fellers have to laff<br>To hear some other paper boast uv havin' on its staff<br>A man who's &quot;worked with Dana,&quot; 'nd then we fellers wink<br>And pull our hats down on our eyes 'nd set around 'nd think.<br>It seems like Dana couldn't be as smart as people say,<br>If he educates so many folks 'nd lets 'em get away;<br>And, as for us, in future we'll be very apt to shun<br>The man who &quot;worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But bless ye, Mr. Dana! may you live a thousan' years,<br>To sort o' keep things lively in this vale of human tears;<br>An' may I live a thousan', too,--a thousan' less a day,<br>For I shouldn't like to be on earth to hear you'd passed away.<br>And when it comes your time to go you'll need no Latin chaff<br>Nor biographic data put in your epitaph;<br>But one straight line of English and of truth will let folks know<br>The homage 'nd the gratitude 'nd reverence they owe;<br>You'll need no epitaph but this: &quot;Here sleeps the man who run<br>That best 'nd brightest paper, the Noo York Sun.&quot;</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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His name wuz Cantell Whoppers, 'nd he wuz a sight ter view
Ez he walked inter the orfice 'nd inquired fer work ter do.
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