That is French,--practically applied,--for failure! It is, you see, an effort to keep the little balls from falling into the wrong holes.

As it so often results in failure _Culbuto_ is an ideal game to play for drinks! Someone has to pay all the time! It is an unequal contest between the individual and the law of gravity! But we must not linger too long at the Lafayette, alluring though it may be.

All Greenwich is beckoning to us, a few blocks away.

We have a new world to explore--the world below Fourteenth Street.
Fourteenth Street is the boundary line which marks the Greenwich Village's utmost city limits, as it marked those of our great-grandfathers.

Like a wall it stands across the town separating the new from the old uncompromisingly.