Such barbs and arrows as the above have to be loftily overlooked if one cannot think of a dignified yet crushing retort; but there are two accusations which never fail. to provoke indignant denial. One is the intimation that a man or woman has been heard snoring. To judge from the outraged contradictions one would think that, snoring was an indictable offense.
Why is it that we resent so intensely the insinuation that we sleep audibly? It is a social fac pas but no worse if as bad as others unblushingly avowed? Human nature is a curious compound and we look forward with keenest curiosity to the psychoanalyst who will explain the hidden motives which operate to make every human being instinctly deny the implication that snoring is one of his accomplishments, no matter though he has been awakened by witnesses in the very midst of his stertorous
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