X Y Z

A Ride goeth before a Fall.--See Automobile, Bucking Broncho,
Bicycle, Air-Ship, Patrol-Wagon, Rail, and Go-Cart.


X RAYS  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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