The Devil's Dictionary: Hovel

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
HOUSELESS
HUMANITY

HOVEL

-n.

The fruit of a flower called the Palace.

Twaddle had a hovel,
Twiddle had a palace;
Twaddle said: "I'll grovel
Or he'll think I bear him malice" —
A sentiment as novel
As a castor on a chalice.
Down upon the middle
Of his legs fell Twaddle
And astonished Mr. Twiddle,
Who began to lift his noddle.
Feed upon the fiddle-
Faddle flummery, unswaddle
A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.]

-G.J.

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