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... 'There is nothing which he cannot draw.' 'H'm!' said Whateley musingly; 'Can he draw an inference?' " 49 Example 2: A play on the homophones 'red' and 'read': Here is Hilaire Belloc's epitaph for himself: When I am gone, let this of me be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." 50 This is, of course, an excellent pun. But in improper hands a pun... unrefined person hurls his laughter of ridicule against all that is good and beautiful, and a foolish man laughs at anything and everything that he cannot understand; and finally Page 25 (h) by what is comic in nature. The comic laughter should therefore be clearly distinguished from all other non-comic phenomena of laughter. But what is this comic laughter due to? What are the essential ...