Now you don't go near her till you have taken advantage of her hint, and made the doctor's acquaintance; that is easy done.

He walks two hours on the east road every day, with his feet in the puddles and his head in the clouds.
Them's HIS two tastes." "But how am I to get him out of the clouds and the puddles ?" inquired Riviere half peevishly.
"How ?" asked Jacintha, with a dash of that contempt uneducated persons generally have for any one who does not know some little thing they happen to know themselves.

"How?
Why, with the nearest blackbeetle, to be sure." "A blackbeetle ?" "Black or brown; it matters little.

Have her ready for use in your handkerchief: pull a long face: and says you--'Excuse me, sir, I have THE MISFORTUNE not to know the Greek name of this merchandise here.' Say that, and behold him launched.

He will christen you the beast in Hebrew and Latin as well as Greek, and tell you her history down from the flood: next he will beg her of you, and out will come a cork and a pin, and behold the creature impaled.