Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems/The Tell-Tale Mirror
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THE TELL-TALE MIRROR.
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- 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:
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- This -was the way the letter ran,
- and ended much like this:
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- 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.
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