Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

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.