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Knock Outs.

We were discussing recently, the most crushing reply any one of us had received through the rejects columns of various journals. The examples were mostly humorous. One of the best was from “Putman's Book News,” where it was instanced that a poem, entitled “Why Do I Live?” was recently submitted to an harassed editor whose reply was: “Because you sent it by post instead of coming around with it.”

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