RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

Example is better than following it.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.