The notary's nose;

THE NOTARY'S NOSE. 3
cravat, without preparing himself with
preliminary study.
Now, a man can get used in no time
to the most extraordinary head-gear,-a
crown, for example. There was that soldier Bonaparte, who picked up one which
a king of France had let drop in the
Place Louis XV., and got himself up in it
without taking lessons of anybody; yet
Europe declared that it was by no means
unbecoming. He even after a while
made crowns quite the fashion among his
family and intimate friends. Everybody
around him either wore one or wanted to.
Yet that extraordinary man was but an
indifferent hand at wearing a white tie.
There was Monsieur le Vicomle de
C, author of several prose poems,
who had studied diplomacy, or the art of
tying one's cravat, to some purpose. He
was present at the review of our last army
a few days before the Waterloo campaign.