Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-22 | Page 26 | Hadn't Read Poe's Poem

Hadn't Read Poe's Poem. The landlady of a certain boarding house always made It a point to ask each departing guest to write something in her visitors' book. She was very proud of It and of some of the people whose names were in the volume and the nice things they said. "But there's one thing I can't understand," under-stand," the lady confided to a friend, "and that is what an American gentleman wrote In the book after stopping here. People always smile when they read it." "What was It?" asked her friend. "Ho only wrote the words, 'Quoth the raven.' " Anaconda Standard.