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208 One who sticks pins into babies, and then makes a chart showing the ebb and flow of their yells.

The theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow, and is certainly a damned fool.

A physician who has decided to admit it.

A hangman signing a petition against vivisection.

Regret that one waited so long to do it.

The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

a sound made by women, babies, tenors, fashionable clergymen, actors and drunken men.

The theory that John Smith is better than his superiors.

A belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.