The covers of this book are too far apart.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

A penny saved is a penny to squander.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate".

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.