Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.