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The Devil's Dictionary-Part20_Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone

that it might be taught to talk.



MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless

conduct and views that madden to crime. The genus has a wide



geographical distribution, being found wherever sought and deplored

wherever found. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye,



nor (without her piano and her views) insupportable to the ear, though

in respect to comeliness distinctlyinferior to the rainbow, and, with



regard to the part of her that is audible, bleating out of the field

by the canary -- which, also, is more portable.



A lovelorn maiden she sat and sang --

This quaint, sweet song sang she;



"It's O for a youth with a football bang

And a muscle fair to see!



The Captain he

Of a team to be!



On the gridiron he shall shine,

A monarch by right divine,



And never to roast on it -- me!"

Opoline Jones



MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just

contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great



Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders

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MALE, n. A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male

of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The



genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

MALEFACTOR, n. The chief factor in the progress of the human race.



MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus

believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could



not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the

Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers



have been of the same way of thinking.

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a



state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened

put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.



MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple

is in the holy city of New York.



He swore that all other religions were gammon,

And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.



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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he



thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His

chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own



species, which, however, multiplies with such insistentrapidity as to

infest the whole habitable earh and Canada.



When the world was young and Man was new,

And everything was pleasant,



Distinctions Nature never drew

'Mongst kings and priest and peasant.



We're not that way at present,

Save here in this Republic, where



We have that old regime,

For all are kings, however bare



Their backs, howe'er extreme

Their hunger. And, indeed, each has a voice



To accept the tyrant of his party's choice.

A citizen who would not vote,



And, therefore, was detested,

Was one day with a tarry coat



(With feathers backed and breasted)

By patriots invested.



"It is your duty," cried the crowd,

"Your ballot true to cast



For the man o' your choice." He humbly bowed,

And explained his wicked past:



"That's what I very gladly would have done,




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