TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures. --Henry Ward Beecher

DRAMATIST, n. One who adapts plays from the French.

BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.