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"DIED OF A ROSE"

A reporter he was, and he wrote, wrote he:  "The grave was covered as thick as could be  With floral tributes"—which reading,The editor man he said, he did so:  "For 'floral tributes' he's got for to go,  For I hold the same misleading."Then he called him in and he pointed sweetTo a blooming garden across the street,  Inquiring: "What's them a-growing?"The reporter chap said: "Why, where's your eyes?Them's floral tributes!" "Arise, arise,"  The editor said, "and be going."