Gingerbread, composted chiefly of sawdust, coal slack, tar, syrup and chopped feed.
Joke books, solemn as the summersault of the trick elephant in his dotage.
Cookies, tough enough to be handed down as heirlooms to the Weary Waggleses of futurity.
Rancid sardines, to be swallowed fin and scale, head and tail.
Pistol cartridges, watch keys, jack-knives, pills, and lead pencils conspicuous chiefly for brittleness.
Bologna sausages of the conglomerate era, petrified; like our glorious Union, invincible and indivisible.
Engine-turned pickles, submerged in carbolic acid and frosted with vitriol crystals; positively antiscorbutic.
Incohesive tooth-brushes cut loose from their base of supplies.
Long clay pipes after the form æsthetically affected by the honest Hollander, bibulous, amphibious and narcotic.