Black Beetles in Amber

A reporter he was, and he wrote, wrote he:

"The grave was covered as thick as could be

With floral tributes"—which reading,

The editor man he said, he did so:

"For 'floral tributes' he's got for to go,

For I hold the same misleading."

Then he called him in and he pointed sweet

To a blooming garden across the street,

Inquiring: "What's them a-growing?"

The reporter chap said: "Why, where's your eyes?

Them's floral tributes!" "Arise, arise,"

The editor said, "and be going."