Let's Not Be Too Quick To Blame

I'm A Poetry-skipper Myself. I Don't Like To Boast, But I Have Probably Skipped More Poetry Than Any Other Person Of My Age And Weight In This Country - Make It Any Other Two Persons. This Doesn't Mean That I Hate Poetry. I Don't Feel That Strongly About It. It Only Means That Those Who Wish To Communicate With Me By Means Of The Written Word Must Do So In Prose.

Alexander Iii Of Macedon Is Known As Alexander The Great Because He Killed More People Of More Different Kinds Than Any Other Man Of His Time.

An Ant On A Hot Stove-lid Runs Faster Than An Ant On A Cold One. Who Wouldn't?

If You Annoy The Hog-nosed Snake Enough, He Will Roll Over On His Back And Play Dead. If You Turn Him Right-side Up, He Will Roll Over To Prove That He Is Dead... While He Is Playing Dead, You Can Go Straight Up To Him And Step On His Head Or Smash Him With A Big Club.

Other Countries May Boast Of This And That, But Nobody Can Touch The United States For Poisonous Snakes. We Have About Twenty Species, Most Of Them Deadly, And Europe Has Only Five Or Six, None Of Them Much Good. We Have Fifteen Kinds Of Rattlesnakes Alone And Nobody Else Has Even One. [footnote: There Is A Species In Central And South America, But It Probably Came From Here.]