You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege - to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.