the meaning of the esoteric terms of Tammany's political creed. These
you must define for yourself as you go along; and change and revise
your definitions as you rise or descend in the Sacred Order. For
canvass here might mean eloquence; there it might mean shrewdness;
lower down, intimidation and coercion; and further depthward, human
sloth and misery. It is but a common deal in horses. Ay, in Tammany
Land it is essentially a trade honestly conducted on the known
principle of supply and demand. These truths you had to discover for
yourself, you say; for neither the Dictionary, nor your friend and
fellow traveller in Bohemia, Mr. Hoolihan, could stretch their
knowledge or their conscience to such a compass. And you are not
sorry to have made such a discovery? Can you think of the Dowry and
say that? We are, indeed, sorry for you. And we would fain insert
in letter D of the Dictionary a new definition: namely, Dowry, n.
(Tammany Land Slang). The odoriferous missiles, such as eggs and
tomatoes, which are showered on an Orator-Groom by the people.

But see what big profits Khalid draws from these small shares in the
Reality Stock Company. You remember, good Reader, how he was kicked
away from the door of the Temple of Atheism. The stogies of that
inspired Doorkeeper were divine, according to his way of viewing
things, for they were at that particular moment God's own boots. Ay,
it was God, he often repeats, who kicked him away from the Temple of
his enemies. And now, he finds the Dowry of Democracy, with all its
wonderful revelations, as profitable in its results, as divine in its
purpose. And in proof of this, we give here a copy of his letter to
Boss O'Graft, written in that downright manner of his contemporaries,
the English original of which we find in the _Histoire Intime_.

"From Khalid to Boss O'Graft.

"Right _Dis_honourable Boss:

"I have just received a check from your Treasurer, which by no
right whatever is due me, having been paid for my services by
Him who knows better than you and your Treasurer what I deserve.
The voice of the people, and their eggs and tomatoes, too, are,
indeed, God's. And you should know this, you who dare to
remunerate me in what is not half as clean as those missiles. I
return not your insult of a check, however; but I have tried to
do your state some service in purchasing the few boxes of soap
which I am now dispatching to the Wigwam. You n