28Sep08

An income tax repayment claim had been made for $60 but the taxpayer had miscalculated the amount, for actually $90 was due to him. A check for this amount was sent, and this is how he acknowledged it:

"Dear Sir,--I am now seventy years of age. At last I believe in Santa Claus."

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent---La Bruyere