Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Tell-Tale Mirror

by Charles Follen Adams

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.