Smile for Today:

Humorist, Robert Benchley, tells a story about his friend Ernie (Ernest Hemingway):

'He took my first edition of A Farewell to Arms and filled in each blank in the text where Scribner's had blushed and put a dash instead of the original word. I think that he supplied the original word in every case. In fact, I am sure of it."

On the fly-leaf of this he wrote:

To R. (G). B from E. ( --- ), H.
Corrected edition. Filled-in blanks.
Very valuable. Sell quick.
~Essay 1934