OF course you will _say_ that I "never Replied to the letter you wrote." That is just like a man! But, however, I read it--or how could I quote? And as to the stories you've heard (No, Don't tell me you haven't--I know!) You'll not believe one blessed word, Joe; But just whence they came, let them go! [Illustration: _And as to the stories you've heard (No, Don't tell me you haven't--I know!)_] AND they came from Sade Lotski of Yolo, Whose father sold clothes on the Bar-- You called him Job-lotski, you know, Joe, And the boys said _her_ value was _par_. Well, we met her in Paris--just flaring With diamonds, and lost in a hat! And she asked me "How Joseph was faring In his love-suit on Poverty Flat!" [Illustration: _Whose father sold clothes on the Bar-- You called him Job-lotski, you know, Joe_] SHE thought it would shame me! I met her With a look, Joe, that made her eyes drop; And I said that your "love-suit fared better Than any suit out of _their_ shop!" And I didn't blush _then_--as I'm doing To find myself here, all alone, And left, Joe, to do all the "suing" To a lover that's certainly flown. [Illustration: _I met her With a look, Joe, that made her eyes drop_] [Illustration: _And I didn't blush then--as I'm doing To find myself here, all alone_] IN this brand-new hotel, called "The Lily" (I wonder who gave it that name?), I really am feeling quite silly, To think I was once called the same; And I stare from its windows, and fancy I'm labeled to each passer-by. Ah! gone is the old necromancy, For nothing seems right to my eye. [Illustration: _Ah! gone is the old necromancy, For nothing seems right to my eye_] ON that hill there are stores that I knew not; There's a street--where I once lost my way; And the copse where you once tied my shoe-knot Is shamelessly open as day! And that bank by the spring--I once drank there, And you called the place Eden, you know; Now, I'm banished like Eve--though the bank there Is belonging to "Adams and Co." [Illustration: _And that bank by the spring--I once drank there, And you called the place Eden, you know_] [Illustration: _And the copse where you once tied my shoe-knot Is shamelessly open as day!_]