--_Smith_.
_See also_ Lies.
SINGERS
A quartette is where all four think the other three can't sing.
SKEPTICS
The heavy black clouds had massed in the east and west, the lightning
was flashing fiercely between the heavy incessant rolling of the
thunder.
Francis was terribly frightened, and his fond mother had gathered her
young hopeful and tried logically to calm his fears.
"Don't be afraid, darling. There's nothing to fear. God sends the
thunderstorm to clear the air, water the flowers, and make it cooler
for us. Now, don't cry, dear; it won't harm you, and everything will
be better when it's over."
The little fellow listened intently, and as his mother finished he
looked up at her gravely and said: "No, no, mother; you talk exactly
the way you did last week when you took me to the dentist to have the
tooth pulled."
This a sacred rule we find
Among the nicest of mankind,--
To doubt of facts, however true,
Unless they know the causes too.
--_Churchill_.
SLANG
A Franklin professor says slang has its place, and he might have added
that the place seems to be everywhere.
"Do Englishmen understand American slang?"
"Some of them do.
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