PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.