Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

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.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

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

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.