Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.