6 .-- THE ELEMENTARY THUMB.
PLATE III .-- PART II.] The firm-jointed thumb is then the outward sign of a more resisting nature, and the longer the first or nail phalange is, the stronger and more powerful the Will force.
These people seldom make friends so easily or rapidly as those belonging to the other type.

On a railway journey they rarely begin a conversation with a fellow traveller, and if they have to do so it will generally be in the form of an argument that "the window must be left open or shut," as the case may be.

Heaven help the other poor traveller if he should also happen to have a stiff thumb, and oppose his ideas to those of the first.
The supple-jointed class, on the contrary, enter readily into conversation with strangers, and they often make their greatest friends while travelling.

They are affable, charming companions, and give in readily to the wishes of others.

In fact, this quality inclines to a weakness that should be guarded against.