Funny Poem: The Way of a Wife

[Trinna D.]

The Way of a Wife      By Edgar A. Guest

She wasn't hungry, so she said.  A salad and a 
     cup of tea
Was all she felt that she could eat, but it was
     different with me.
"I'm rather hungry," I replied: "if you don't 
     mind, I think I'll take
Some oysters to begin with and a good old-
     fashioned sirloin steak."

Now wives are curious in this; to make the
     statement blunt and straight,
There's nothing tempts their appetites like food
     upon another's plate;
And when those oysters six appeared, she looked
     at them and said to me,
"Just let me try one, will you dear?" and right 
     away she swallowed three.

On came the steak, and promptly she exclaimed:
     "Oh my, that looks so good!"
I think I'd like a bit of it."  The game is one I
     understood.
I cut her off a healthy piece and never whimpered
     when she said:
"Now just a few potatoes, dear, and also let
     me share your bread."

She wasn't hungry!  She'd refused the food I
     had been glad to buy,
But on the meal which came for me, I know she
     turned a hungry eye.
She never cares for much to eat, she's dainty in
     her choice, I'll state,
But she gets ravenous enough to eat whatever's
     on my plate.