POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] 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.

RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.