Noise proves nothing.

Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
WEDNESDAY, Sept.11.

In this world we often make mistakes of judgment.
We do not as a rule get out of them sound and whole, but sometimes we do.
At dinner yesterday evening-present, a mixture of Scotch, English, American, Canadian, and Australasian folk--a discussion broke out about the pronunciation of certain Scottish words.

This was private ground, and the non-Scotch nationalities, with one exception, discreetly kept still.

But I am not discreet, and I took a hand.