"Set your chair out on the porch on a Christmas day.

Put your feet in a pail-full of powdered ice.

Have somebody jingle a bell in one ear and blow into the other with a bellows and you will have an exact idea of it." When she told of a lady who had been horned by a large insect known as a snapdragon, he laughed loudly and closed the book and said: "They have found a new peril of American life.

It is the gory horn of the snapdragon.

Added to our genius for boastfulness and impiety, it is a crowning defect.