setting up the drinks after you're all in.

Out of the frying-pan into the face--Mothers' doughnuts.

O

Many hands make light work--also a good Jackpot.

=OAR=

[Illustration]

A popular device for catching crabs.

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=OATS= England's horse-feed, America's breakfast and Scotland's
table-d'hote.

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=OATH= A form of speech that has many trials in court, but is
never tried in Sunday School.

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=OBESITY=

[Illustration]

A surplus gone to waist.

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=OCEAN= An old toper who is always soaked, has many a hard night
along the coast, floats many a schooner, lashes himself into a
fury because so frequently crossed, and has his barks in every
port. At sea, the king of the elements; on shore, a mere surf.

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=OLEOMARGARINE= The White Bread's Burden. From Eng. _olio_, a
mixture, and Grk. _margino_, to be furious. A furious mixture.

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=OMNIBUS= A test for Patience, still popular in England. From Grk.
_oneiros_, dream, and _baino_, to go or move. A dream of
motion.

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=ONION= The all-round strength champion of the Vegetable Kingdom,
garlic and cabbage being close rivals.

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=OPERA= A drama that has taken on airs and refuses to speak, yet
always sings its own praises. =GRAND OPERA= An excuse for
displaying several boxes of jewelry and peaches with
pedigrees.

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=OPINION= The prodigal son of Thought. =PUBLIC OPINION= The
world's champion pugilist, who has knocked out Law in many a
hard fought bout.

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=OPIUM= The real author of "The Dream Book."

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=OPTIMISM= A cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea-kettle to
sing though in hot water up to its nose.

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=ORCHARD= The small boy's Eden of today, in which the apple again
occasions the fall.

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=OSTRICH= The largest and heaviest bird on earth, yet rated by his
owners only as a f