To add to my mumbling complaint, (for, you must know, I have been quite a dentiloquist,) I have an only sister on a visit to me, who has been alarmingly ill for some time.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words / Now only use four-letter words

When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.

So THAT's why I was malding when I lost -- or at least what I'll blame it on.