That editor has gone, and _The Joy-bell_ is decently interred.

I was at her birth, and I was at her funeral.

She had a short life, and was never up to much.

I never guessed she'd hold out as long as she did; but the editor was a cute one, and for a time he bamboozled his authors, and managed to live on them.

Yes, _The Joy-bell_ is in her quiet grave at last, and can't do no more harm to nobody.