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_ A Ride goeth before a Fall.-- See Automobile, Bucking Broncho, Bicycle, Air-Ship, Patrol-Wagon, Rail, and Go-Cart.
Ten dollars from a friend. * * * * * =YARN= An essential in fabrication--either woven or narrated. Mill yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so. * * * * * =YAWL= Either the shape of a boat or the sound of a cat, but never a cat-boat. * * * * * =YAWNS= The air-breaks on a sleeper. * * * * * =YEAR= A period originally including 365 days, now 325, since the other 40 are Lent. * * * * * =YELLOW FEVER= A passion for reading the Hearst newspapers. * * * * * =YOLK= The legacy of the hen and the burden of its lay. =YOKE= The inheritance of the hen-pecked and the burden of the married. * * * * * =YULE-LOG= A Christmas protege of the grate, too young to smoke, too tough to burn and too green to warm up to anybody. * * * * * =YOUTH= The dynamo that makes the world go round; a product of its own generation, with its wires carrying Power into the high places of Earth and with its currents of Thought short-circuited only by bigoted Old Age. * * * * * =ZEALOT= One who loves morality so well he will commit crime to maintain it. * * * * * =ZEBRA= The crook among horses, condemned to wear stripes for life. * * * * * =ZERO= Originally, nothing; but now meaning a good deal on a thermometer or bank-draft, and comprising two-thirds of the 400. * * * * * =ZIGZAG= The popular route after a heavy dinner. Old adage, "The longest way round is the drunkard's way home!" * * * * * =ZOUAVE= The original Mrs. Bloomer. _ |
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