A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

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

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.