The clerk sent this month's list of disproofs back three times. Three times my pencil stopped at the same line, and rather than strike it out, I turned the page.

• Cyril AshbyHolloway, a turned page isn't a record. It's a postponement. Have that line filled by the next session.
  Barnaby HollowayI'll fill it. It won't be the handwriting you're hoping for, Clerk.
• Dr. Ambrose KilburnOverwork, that's all it is. It's not the hand that stops the pencil, it's the eyelids.
  Barnaby HollowayYour diagnoses always come cheap, Doctor. I do appreciate that.