Belatedly

Only early this morning, when removing the last piece of stationery from the box, did I notice the error. This is ecru paper with printing in a sort of madder color reproducing nineteenth-century steel engravings of African animals. There is a quotation on the container: "Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept, And tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky." This is attributed to "Arna Botemps," not "Arna Bontemps." This box of Mudlark paper from BookPeople was opened and closed at least 25 times and the mistake was overlooked no times fewer than that. The eye too often sees only what it expects to see, not what's truly there.