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 of the clergyman, he added, in a lowered voice-"until God called him home." Edgar, aged five, was driving from the station on his first visit to Maine. His mother, noticing a troubled look on his face as he looked about, said: "What's the matter, dear? Don't you like the beautiful country?" "Yes, mother, but on my map Maine is red!"