“There is more to be learned from one widow than from a whole Smithsonian museum of anthropology.”

April Fifteenth

Fijjit—“The widow says that her marriage to Gobang was secret.”

Ijjit—“It must have been. Gobang himself did not mention a widow in his will, so he could not have known of the wedding.”

—Life.

April Sixteenth

“Widows, gentlemen, are not usually timorous, as my uncle used to say.”

—Dickens.

April Seventeenth

The good widow’s sorrow is no storm, but a still rain.