CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.