THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 10, 1907.
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It set Miss Ruffles thinking as she pas.ed through Herald Square
And saw the crowds of people who were always standing there
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. boy in buttons left her with the City Editor.
She really was more frightened than she'd ever been before.
He looked her over coldly, and his voice made Fluffy start.
"You'll work with the Department of Society and Art."
town,' so Fluffy wrote review
Of "Gainsboroughs' and "Velasquez," of "genre," "wash and "hues,
The typos liked her "copy," it was all so neat and plain,
V. And even artists owned her tastes were decent in the main.
4- She had pencils red and yellow, with points two inches long,
A desk and chair, a typewriter she picked up for a song.
And in each morning's paper, it made her flush with pride ",
To find the things she wrote herself in columns long and wide.
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5 But one night just at press time poor Fluffy quite forgot
And rustled through the City Room when work was. driving
Then twelve reporters dropped cigars; lost notes piled up the floor 'J
And sentences went tangling off for balf an hour. or more.
(COPYRIGHT, 1907. BY THE NEW YORK HETtALO CC
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6 The paper the next morning, was in a fearful plighr,
With letters missing, "heads askew, arid nothing put in right.
But when half the force stopped smoking and got deathly sick and pale
Miss Ruffles had to write at home and send it in by mail
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