Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

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

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.