ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.