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

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.