CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.