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The Editor wrote his political screed / In ink that was fainter and fainter; / He rose to the call of his country's need, / And in spiderish characters wrote with speed, / A column on "Cutting the Painter".
The "reader" sat in his high-backed chair, / For literals he was a hunter; / But he stared aghast at the column long / Of the editorial hot and strong, / For the comp. inspired by some sense of wrong / Had headed it "Gutting the Punter".