The notary's nose;

18 THE NOTARY'S NOSE.
common. It reddened a little, then a
great deal, and swelled up by degrees
almost to the point of deformity. After a
hunting party that had been kept in high
spirits by the north wind, the notary experienced an intolerable itching. He looked
in the glass at an inn, and found the color
of his nose not at all to his taste: you
would have called it a chilblain in the
wrong place.
He consoled himself with the thought
that a good hot fire would bring back its
natural appearance. And in fact it did
relieve his nose and restore its color for a
few moments; but the itching returned
the next day, the tissues swelled up enormously, and the red color reappeared with
a slight addition of violet. A week
passed in the house before the fireplace
effaced the fatal tint; but it reappeared
the first time he went out, in spite of his
gray-fox furs.