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Novel Stale scraps hashed and peppered. 



Nonsense What you cannot refute, or answer. 



Night Day by candle-light. 



Old A term applied when a girl is married before her rivals. 



Oddity An honest man. 



Page A courtier in his apprenticeship. 



Parrot Favourite society of an ignorant woman. 



Portrait A mirror whose excellence consists in flattering. 



Policy An infernal conspiracy for overturning the world. 



Preface A modest defence of stupidity. 



Reason A child which grows older without growing larger. 



Soldier An animal which spends one half of his life in the theory, 



arid the other half in the practice of evil. 

 Sword The argument of heroes. 

 Stomach The brain of a blockhead. 

 Te Deum An affront offered to a Father for the murder of his 



children. 



Vote An act of the conscience set up to auction. 

 World One's own acquaintance. 

 War A game at which governments play for the blood of the 



subjects. 



TEMPER. 



(From the Oriental.) 



YES, Adah, I swore by the fire of thine eyes, 

 I ne'er could a sweetness unvaried endure : 



The bubbles of spirit, that sparkling arise, 

 Forbid life to stagnate, and render it pure. 



But yet, my sweet love, though thy spirit's my pride, 

 I'd wish for some sweetness to temper the bowl : 



If life be ne'er suffered to rest or subside, 



It may not be fleet but I fear 'twill be foul. 



