Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

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.

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.