figures in the right-hand column.

BIOGRAPH A stereopticon picture taken with a chill and shown with
tremors.

BIRDIE A term a woman is apt to apply to a man she is playing for
a jay.

BIRTHDAY Anniversary of one's birth. Observed only by men and
children.

BLUBBER The useful product of a dead whale. The useless product
of a live baby.

BLUE The only color we can feel. INVISIBLE BLUE A policeman.

BLUSH A temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the
physiognomy, aeteologized by the perceptiveness of the sensorium,
in a predicament of inequilibrity, from a sense of shame, anger or
other cause, eventuating in a paresis of the vase-motorial,
muscular filaments of the facial capillaries, whereby, being
divested of their elasticity, they become suffused with a radiance
emanating from an intimidated praecordia.

BOARD An implement for administering corporal punishment, used by
mothers and landladies. "The Festive Board" may be a shingle, a
hair-brush a fish-hash breakfast or a stewed prune supper.

BOHEMIA (Not on the map.) A land flowing with canned milk and
distilled honey and untroubled by consistency, convention,