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=POLE-CAT= A small animal to be killed with a pole, the longer the
pole the better.

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=POLICEMAN=

[Illustration]

A never present help in time of trouble.

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=POLYGAMY= A thoughtless way of increasing the family expenses.

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=POLYGLOT= A parrot that can swear in several languages.

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=POSTSCRIPT= The only thing readable in a woman's letter.

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=PRETZEL= The bar-keeper's promoter.

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=PROTECTION= Originally, the swaddling clothes of the infant,
Industry; now, merely the shoe-lacings for the giant,
Monopoly.

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=PRO= and =CON= Prefixes of opposite meaning. For example,
Progress and Congress.

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=PRUDE= A native of Boston.

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=PRUDENCE= A quality of mind that restrains the wise boarder from
trying to find out how his landlady makes her hash.

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=PRUDERY= A quality that displays a lack of modesty as a wig does
a loss of hair.

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=PRUNE= A plum that has seen better days: the boarding-house
veteran and the landlady's pet; badly wrinkled, yet well
preserved.

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=PUGILIST= A close-fisted party who is often roped in but never
gives up till he's out.

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=PULLMAN PORTER= A legalized train-robber.

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=PUNCH= A weekly obituary notice from London, chronicling the
death of Humor.

Never make a mountain out of a mole-hill--Try gold, silver, copper
or radium--there's more in it.

Q

Charity begins at home--but ends when you reach The Cook.

=QUACK= The Duck family's favorite physician.

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=QUAIL=

[Illustration]

v. t., To shrink--a characteristic of the bird when ordered in a
restaurant.

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=QUEEN= One entitled to rule a nation, make up a deck, or beat a
knave.

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=QUEST