STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.