BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.