The notary's nose;

THE NOTARY'S NOSE. I03
taught him to smoke cigars, and drink
wine and brandy, and the poor devil gave
himself up to these pleasures with the innocence of a savage. They got him tipsy,
they got him drunk, they made him descend all the steps which separate man
from the brute. The fellow needed education;-and these fine gentlemen took a
great deal of pleasure in giving it to him.
Was it not something new and agreeable
to ruin an Auvergnat?
One day one of them asked him how
he intended to use M. l'Ambert's hundred
louis, when he should have earned them.
"I'll plashe them at fibe per shent,"
he answered, "and I'll get a hundred
francsh interesht."
"And after that?" queried a nice little
millionnaire of twenty-five years. "Will
you be richer? will you be happier? You
will have six sous income a day; if you
marry, as is inevitable-for you're made