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 name and that he lived “somewhere south of Dixon, Illinois.”

Mrs. Case, apparently, knew even less; but really the only way to have her tell her story is to resort to the deadly parallel: Poor Bulmer! What sins were committed in thy name!

Or perhaps the real villain of the piece is that Wisconsin editor who, whenever he came across Bulmer’s name attached to a poem, seems to have taken a fiendish delight in changing it to Bulwer. It may even be that Bulmer wrote some poems of his own which were reft from