PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

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

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.