In Other Words/No Trouble to Show Goods
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS
[For the benefit of advertisers, present and prospective, it should be stated that these are only a few of the publisher’s kinds of type.]
Speak gently to the printer man, His work is pretty hard;Besides, he does the best he can To help along a bard.
O ever ready his response To anything we ask,Though we demand a hundred font He would not curse his task,
And yet his lot is not a pipe; Small wonder he is vexed,If we mark this for Jensen type, And this for Caslon Text.
Run this, we pray, in Elzevir; This in Devinne Slope;Put this in Gothic, plain and clear; In Blanchard set this dope.
Let this line in Long Primer stand, And this in Century Bold style;This in 8-point John Alden, and This 10-point Cheltenham Old Style.
In Modern Roman set this here; This Tiffany Text, perhaps;This goes in regular brevier, AND THIS IN AGATE CAPS.
So do not scorn the printer man Whose labor is so tough—He does the very best he can To help us with our stuff.
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