Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Tell-Tale Mirror


 * She was sitting in the office of her husband's down town store,
 * And waiting for his coming, as she oft had done before,
 * "When in a handglass on his desk,—Jerusha! she was mad—
 * She saw these lines reflected, from a brand-new blotting pad:




 * This -was the way the letter ran,
 * and ended much like this:




 * Should any reader wish to know what made his wife so mad,
 * And what those brief reflections were, upon that blotting pad;
 * And why a suit for a divorce was quickly brought about—
 * Hold this before your looking-glass and you will soon find out.