Fallen Among Thieves

I saw a wondrous sight today,

     While in the mountains fair;

I chanced to see a large hotel,

     And so I halted there.

With summer girls and their mammas,

     The place did swarm, I heard;

And now the wondrous truth I’ll state:

     “A man had registered!”

June 2, ‘95

Pub. in Boston

Courier, June

16, 1895