SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.