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The Silly Syclopedia by Noah [pseud.] Lott
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CASH. The stuff we work for, work other people for and are worked for.
Synonyms: Bones, Cash, Coin, Dough, Ducats, Long-green, Mazuma, and
1,000 others.

CHARITY. Something which begins at home and stays at home every day
except Sunday, when it goes to church to talk about itself.

CINCH. When a man starts out with a bundle of money and a bundle of
booze it's a cinch that he drops the money first.

COLD FEET. A punishment for those that stand around and wait for dead
men's shoes.

COMPLIMENTS. Things which some people fish for hard enough to catch a
sea-serpent.

CONFIDENCE MAN. The noblest work of fraud.

CONCLUSION. Something a woman jumps at in the same manner in which she
jumps off a street car--which is backwards.

CONSCIENCE. The alarm clock on a man's mind which is seldom wound up.

CONSISTENCY. A jewel which isn't appreciated as a Christmas present.

CONTENTMENT. A large, open-faced gentleman telling his friends how he
self-made himself.

COPPER-FASTENED CINCH. A good-looking widow who has made up her mind to
marry again.
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