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YANKEE, n.In Europe, an American.In the Northern States of ourUnion, a New Englander.In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)

YEAR, n.A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

YESTERDAY, n.The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entirepast of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak Of middle life and look adown the bleak And unfamiliar foreslope to the West, Where solemn shadows all the land invest And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest. Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame To stay the shadow on the dial's face At manhood's noonmark!Now, in God His name I chide aloud the little interspace Disparting me from Certitude, and fain Would know the dream and vision ne'er again.

Baruch Arnegriff

It is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff wasattended at

different times by seven doctors.

YOKE, n.An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we oweone of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word thatdefines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.

YOUTH, n.The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum,Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor ofendowing a living Homer.

Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earthagain, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed withwhistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, andclows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice neveris heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and,howling, is cast into Baltimost!

Polydore Smith