Contempt; The Feeling Of A Prudent Man

Convictions Are Variable; To Be Always Consistent Is To Be Sometimes Dishonest.

Plague, N. In Ancient Times A General Punishment Of The Innocent For Admonition Of Their Ruler, As In The Familiar Instance Of Pharaoh The Immune. The Plague Today . . . Is Merely Nature's Fortuitous Manifestation Of Her Purposeless Objectionableness.

Understanding, N. A Cerebral Secretion That Enables One Having It To Know A House From A Horse By The Roof On The House. Its Nature And Laws Have Been Exhaustively Expounded By Locke, Who Rode A House, And Kant, Who Lived In A Horse.

April Fool, N. The March Fool With Another Month Added To His Folly.

Duck-bill, N. Your Account At Your Restaurant During The Canvas-back Season.