Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.