If they are so, what must the men be ?" "There is a name for this process of feminine reasoning, this cumulative and syncopetic process of the mind, entirely feminine (but regarded by itself as rational), a name which I used to know well in the days when I had the ten Fallacies at my fingers' ends, more tenaciously perhaps than the Decalogue.

Strange to say, the name is gone from my memory; but--but--" "But then you had better go after it, my dear," his wife suggested with authority.

"If your only impulse when you hear reason is to search after hard names for it, you are safer outside of its sphere altogether." "I am struck with the truth of that remark," observed the rector; "and the more so because I descry a male member of our race approaching, with a hat--at once the emblem and the crown of sound reason.

Away with all fallacies; it is Church-warden Cheeseman!".