If only not to listen, could mean there were no statement

I assume, it's widely

understood, the Pres-

ident is not required

to speak his obligato-

ry report to Congress.

The "framers," as men

of more experience of

our world than we let

the children worry a-

bout, were of a prac-

tical bent. Rough mu-

sic can be expensive.

The sounds of certain

frailties are no fun.

But an honest school-
yard riposte is some-
thing to exonerate as
high spirits. Now who
will try a satin tie?

William Hogarth

Hudibras encounters the

  Skimmington

1726

Jenny Uglow

Hogarth

  A Life and a World

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997©

E.P. Thompson

Customs in Common

  Studies in Traditional

  Popular Culture

The New Press, 1993©


P.G. Wodehouse
Psmith in the City
1910
Overlook Press, 2003©