Miss Amabel Jones is musical, and so The heart of the young he-boarder doth win, Playing “The Maiden’s Prayer” _adagio_— That fetcheth him, as fetcheth the “bunko skin” The innocent rustic. For my part, I pray That Badarjewska maid may wait for aye Ere sits she with a lover, as did we Once sit together, Amabel! Can it be That all that arduous wooing not atones For Saturday’s shortness of trade dollars three? _Behold_ the deeds that are done of Mrs. Jones! Yea! She forgets the arm that was wont to go Around her waist. She wears a buckle whose pin Galleth the crook of her young man’s elbow. I forget not, for I that youth have been! Smith was aforetime the Lothario gay. Yet once, I mind me, Smith was forced to stay Close in his room. Not calm as I was he; But his noise brought no pleasaunce, verily. Small ease he got of playing on the bones Or hammering on the stove-pipe, that I see. Behold the deeds that are done of Mrs. Jones! Thou, for whose fear the figurative crow I eat, accursed be thou and all thy kin! Thee I will show up—yea, up I will show Thy too-thick buckwheats and thy tea too thin. Ay! here I dare thee, ready for the fray: Thou dost _not_ “keep a first-class house” I say! It does not with the advertisements agree. Thou lodgest a Briton with a puggaree, And thou hast harbored Jacobses and Cohns, Also a Mulligan. Thus denounce I thee! Behold the deeds that are done of Mrs. Jones! _Envoy_ Boarders! the worst I have not told to ye: She hath stolen my trousers, that I may not flee Privily by the window. Hence these groans. There is no fleeing in a _robe de nuit_. Behold the deeds that are done of Mrs. Jones! A PITCHER OF MIGNONETTE [14] A pitcher of mignonette In a tenement’s highest casement,— Queer sort of flower-pot—yet That pitcher of mignonette Is a garden in heaven set, To the little sick child in the basement— The pitcher of mignonette, In a tenement’s highest casement. _Lizette Woodworth Reese_ Lizette Woodworth Reese was born January 9, 1856, at Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived ever since. After an education obtained chiefly in private schools, she taught English in the Western High School at Baltimore.