USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.