Verses Across™
        • 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899

Themes · What’s new · About, terms & privacy · ·
Also from us: Verses Across ↗ (the world's scriptures)

Literature · Humor

A Book of Burlesques 85The Clergyman

18

Literature · Humor

A Book of Burlesques 85

The Clergyman

MenckenEnglish
So they all say. The answer is almost part of the liturgy. But have a care, my dear fellow! The true eugenist eschews the wine cup. In every hundred children of a man who ingests one fluid ounce of alcohol a day, six will be left-handed, twelve will be epileptics and nineteen will suffer from adolescent albuminuria, with delusions of persecution.... Have you ever had anthrax?

Spotted a mistake or have an idea?

A Book of Burlesques 84A Book of Burlesques 86
Sources & credits: Mencken

Mencken — A Book of Burlesques (H. L. Mencken) (author lived 1880–1956). Public Domain. H. L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #22145. Source

Literature · Humor

A Book of Burlesques 86

MenckenEnglish