As seen in my bedside scrawl,
Is always so poor,—that the great joke,
I'm sure, was no joke at all!
YES OR NO?
["The hand-writing of well-educated Ladies is often disgracefully illegible."—A Ladies' Journal.]
Oh, never did lover in fable
In such a predicament stand,
A letter I wrote to my MABEL,
To ask for her heart and her hand,