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Definitions.

- A matter of cause - Effect.
- A matter of cores - Apple sauce.
- A matter of coerce - Compulsion.
- A matter of course - A horse race.
- A matter of corse - Grave robbing.
- A matter of coarse - Cheap clothing.



- Colts - A horse heir.
- Clocks - Striking objects.
- Custom - The law of fools.
- Cold snap - An icy answer.
- Comma - A period with a long tail.
- Contractor - The girl who laces tightly
- Counter attraction - A pretty sales-woman.
- Corkscrew - The key which unlocks the gait of a man's legs.
- Cotton Mather - A writer who invented the cotton gin and wrote histories.
- Coquette - One who first steals you heart by her address, and then steels he own heart to your addresses.
- Constitution of the United States was established to insure domestic hostility - That part of the book at the end which no
body reads.



- Divorce - See Chicago.
- Dead sea fruit - Currents.
- Diamond - A dear little thing.
- Damsel - Greatest sell on record.
- Done with the pen - A dead dig.
- Door - Knobbiest part of the house.
- Diamond in the ruff - A lady brooch.
- Domestics - The hire class of society.
- Dirt - Mud with the juice squeezed out.
- Dancing - Embodied melody; poetry of motion.
- Demagogue - A vessel containing beer and other liquids.



- Flat failure - A poor pancake.
- Forced politeness - Bowing to necessity.
- Flirtation - Attention without intention.
- Feast of reason - The entertainment of an idea.
- First-class securities - Handcuffs and timelocks.
- Flirt - A fish which eats all the bait and escapes the hook; the complete angler.