CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.