NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

Least said is soon disavowed.