Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.