Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.