STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.