Opinions that one now pastes in a book labelled cock-a-doodledum and keeps for reading to select audiences on summer nights once drew tears, I can assure you.

我可以向你保证，有人现在贴在一本标有“cock-a-doodledum”的书上，并在夏日的夜晚继续阅读以选择观众的观点曾经让人流泪。