IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.