I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

A wet dog is lovingest.

It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.