The Fable of 'The Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush'

1914 Rated NR · ⭐ 0 · Votes: 0

Ernest Coppie an author was trying to grind out something that could be sold for enough coin to buy himself a good square meal. He dashed off some sentimental guff called "When Willie Came to Say Good-Night" and it was punk. He threw it in the wastebasket but when his friend came in he discovered it and set out to sell it. He finally found a magazine editor who gave him a check for $500 and it was like picking money off a bush. The author who was an old bachelor and a kid hater was tickled to death to get the dough but when letters came in congratulating him on his excellent poem and sympathizing with him he was bored to death.