Only A Printer's Dream

A printer snt In his easy chair, bis t'oots trin paiclieil and hu coat tlirtail-birc. incl liis tace lookud weary :iml worn witli 2an While sailly thinking ot bu-lne- Jebt, oíd Mnrpheus slowiy round blm .:re)t, aml befnre lie knew it lie sountllv llopt, and sleepinjf he dreamed that he wat dead, froffl trouble and toil hi. spirit liad flt-tl, and ihat nol even a cow-bi 11 tll ramt fui til tlie peaceful rest of his cow hide solc. As he wondeied among the sliadt'S, that smuke and icorcb iu lowei H.ides, be sborily observed un lion dior that creakingly liung m liliijres' : jar, bul iliis entiMiice uns cloueil with a red hot bar. and Satan bintMll stood peeplacoat, wniting lor iravelt-rs tlititauina, and tlu.s to tlic pissinjf primer ipoke: "(Jome ín, my uWrj it shall cost yon notliin and nevar f 'ar. Tliis is the place where I cook tüe Oues who never pay tlieir siihscrii'liim lUUlt; tur tlioiili 10 lite tln-y raay ecape, tlu-.v ill tind wlien ibe're dead it is too ale; I 111 olww yon tlie place where 1 melt tlnin tliin, willi red hot cliains and sciaps of tin, and nlsn where I coinb tlieir tiend With broken glass and melted leail, and it ot' rotrath ineutti tlicy otlly think, there's boiling water for them to drink, there'l u red h t jírindstoiie t grind tl e r nose,:ind red lint rings to we.ir on tlieir tojs, 'd it' tliey mentios tluy don't like fin-, I 1 eew up Huir nionth with red hot win-; anti tlun, dear si r, you sliould see thera squirtn, while I roll them over and OOok to a turn. With tliesel.ist wordsthe pi intcr awoke, and thonlit it iill a prai-iical joke; bui ¦til] at times SO real díd it seein, tha' hr cannot bt-lieve it was 11 a drc.ni;and oftrn he thinks with a chiukle and grin, ol' tlie fate ot tliose who save tlu'ir tin and nevcr pay the printer.