Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.