thine, suum, his, noster, our, vester, your, humanum, human,
belluinum brutal, and the like, as

Non est tuum aviam instruere:

Don't teach your grandmother-- to suck eggs.

Humanum est inebriari.

It is a human frailty-- or an amiable weakness-- to get drunk.

Lord Byron proves it to be a _human_ frailty.

"_Man_ being _reasonable_, _must_ get drunk."

[Illustration: A REASONABLE CREATURE.]

Another poet (anon.) proves it to be an _amiable_ one, by establishing
the analogy which exists between it and an intoxication of another
kind--

"Love is like a dizziness,
Never lets a poor man go about his business."

Verbs of accusing, condemning, advising, acquitting, and the like,
require a genitive case which signifies the charge; as

Qui alterum accusat probri, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.

It is fit that he who accuses another of dishonesty
should look into himself.

If this maxim were acted up to, what attorney could we ever get to frame
an indictment?

Furti damnatus, "tres menses" adeptus est:

Being condemned of theft, he had "three months."

We do not see much _fun_ in that. We cannot help thinking, however,
that "Three Months at Brixton," would form a taking (at least a
_thief_-taking) title for a novel.

Admoneto magistrum squalidarum vestium:

Put the master in mind of his seedy clothes.

That is if you want a _good dressing_.

This genitive case is sometimes changed into an ablative, either with or
without a preposition, as

Putavi de calendis Aprilibus te esse admonendum:

I thought that you ought to be reminded of the first of April.

Young reader! were you ever, on the above anniversary, sent to the
cobbler's for pigeons' milk, and dismissed with _strap-oil_ for your
_pains_? Were your domestic and alimentive affections ever sported with
by the false intelligence that a letter from home and a large cake were
waiting for you below! Or worse, did some waggish, but inconsiderate
friend ever send you a fool's-cap and a hamper of stones?

Reader, of a more advanced age, were you ever?-- but we cannot go on--
Oh! Matilda-- we might have been your _slave_-- but it was cruel of you
to _sell_ us in such a manner.

Uterque, both, nullus, none, alter, the other, neuter, neither of the
two, alius, another, ambo, both, and the superlative degree, are joined
to verbs of that kind only in the ablative case, as

Fratris, an asini, trucidationis accusas me