Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke."