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Here are some of the topics covered in this book: ABSENT-MINDEDNESS, ACCIDENTS, ACCURACY, ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, SIGNS, SILENCE, SIMPLIFIED SPELLING, SIN, and SINGERS. Excerpts: A clergyman was spending the afternoon at a house in the English village where he had preached. After tea he was sitting in the garden with his hostess. Out rushed her little boy holding a rat above his head. "Don't be afraid, mother," he cried; "he's dead. We beat him and bashed him and thumped him until"-catching sight