Blottentots, and How to Make Them

by John Prosper Carmel

THE LATEST DISCOVERY

I've just discovered a marvelous way

Of making these Blottentots mottled and gray;

If you promise you never will show any one

I'll tell you the secret of how it is done.

Take two bottles of ink, one thick and one thin,

Of different blacks, and dip your pen in;

From each splash a drop at the very same spot,