HE young girl said: "The gentleman must be very rich, for he is very ugly." The public judges in a similar manner: "The man must be very learned, for he is very tiresome."
Heinrich Heine, Thoughts and Fancies.
ND he chirped and sang, and skipped about, and laughed with laughter hearty,
He was so wonderfully active for so very stout a party.
And I said, "O gentle pie-man, why so very, very merry?
Is it purity of conscience, or your one-and-seven sherry?"
W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads.
PECULATION—a word that sometimes begins with its second letter.
Horace Smith, The Tin Trumpet.
