r of the Doctor--Pooo-oo-oo-oo-r
cr[=e][=e][=e]a-ture. Perhaps his familiarity with the works of Nash,
Decker, and Rabelais suggested his word coming.

One of the interchapters begins with the word _Aballiboozobanganorribo_.

He questions in the "Poultry Yard" the assertion of Aristotle that it is
an advantage for animals to be domesticated. The statement is regarded
unsatisfactory by the fowl--replies to it being made by Chick-pick,
Hen-pen, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Turkey-lurkey, and Goosey-loosey.

He occasionally coins words such as Potamology for the study of rivers,
and Chapter cxxxiv is headed--

"A transition, an anecdote, an apostrophe, and a pun, punnet, or
pundigrion."

He proposes in another chapter to make a distinction between masculine
and feminine in several words.

"The troublesome affection of the diaphragm which every person has
experienced is to be called according to the sex of the
patient--He-cups or She-cups--which upon the principle of making
our language truly British is better than the more classical form
of Hiccup and Hoeccups. In the Objective use, the word becomes
Hiscups or Hercups and in like manner Histerrics should be altered
into Herterics--the complaint never being masculine."

The Doctor is rich in variety of verbal humour--

"When a girl is called a lass, who does not perceive how that
common word must have arisen? who does not see that it may be
directly traced to a mournful interjection _Alas!_ breathed
sorrowfully forth at the thought that the girl, the lovely innocent
creature upon whom the beholder has fixed his meditative eye, would
in time become a woman--a woe to man."

Our Doctor flourished in an age when the pages of Magazines, were filled
with voluntary contributions from men who had never aimed at dazzling
the public, but came each with his scrap of information, or his humble
question, or his hard problem, or his attempt in verse--

"A was an antiquary, and wrote articles upon Altars and Abbeys and
Architecture. B made a blunder which C corrected. D demonstrated
that E was in error, and that F was wrong in Philology, and neither
Philosopher nor Physician though he affected to be both. G was a
Genealogist. H was a Herald who helped him. I was an inquisitive
inquirer, who found reason for suspecting J to be a Jesuit. M was a
Mathematician. N noted the weather. O obser