TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.