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Identifier: bookofroyalblue03balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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IHi: SIHANGK AND MdTl.K.V OKorP OK WITNFSSi:; HUMOR AND THE HUMORIST. IF THE CRITICS WERE DOING IT ALL. THE UNOFFICIAL AUTOCRAT. lY S. K. KISllll IN lltUM.Il Hl:i OHll-lli;ilAl,D.-I If the critics could write all the books. How charminj; the stories would be.For the critics would never lit faults Creep into their pages, you sec.Such blunders as Shakespeare has made. Such faults as in Dickens abound.And such blemishes as are disjilayed In the new volumes jioiu)- aroundWould never cause readers to sif^h Or turn with sore hearts and sad looks.To wonder why fools siTililiie whenThey oujj-ht to be shniuiing- thi- pen— If the critics could write all the books. II If the critics could be in command When armies go rushiii);- to tight.No blunders would ever be made. Each move and each plan would be right.Such foolish shortcomings as brought The mighty Xapoleon low;Such failures as fell to Lees lot Would never occur, as we know:There could never be any mistake In the warring at sea or on land

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