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The aristocratic editor of a new post bellum Southern magazine is being interviewed by a northern expert seeking to increase circulation of the magazine.
""All right," said Thacker. "I read the poem, but I couldn't tell whether it was about the depot of the battle of Bull Run. Now, here's a short story called 'Rosies' Temptation,' by Fosdyke Piggott. It's rotten. What is a Piggott, anyway?"
"Mr. Piggott," said the editor, "is a brother of the principal stockholder of the magazine."
"All's right with the world--Piggott passes," said Thacker."
Song, from Pippa Passes
The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world!
-- Robert Browning
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For what it's worth, Doc, and only if you're an admirer, that set of lines from Pippa Passes is one of P G Wodehouse's favourite mis-quotes. Bertie Wooster, in a good mood (usually at the start, rather than the end, of a particular 'adventure') is always trying to quote it at Jeeves!
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Dear Shanks: I used to read P.G.Wodehouse in the Saturday Evening Post until it folded after WWII.
Incidentally, that story had a beautiful ending. The Southern editor who so valued Southern family connections, would not accept an eight thousand word contribution from a Yankee, until he found he had a Southern cousin. Despite the fact that he was President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
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