The notary's nose;

48 THE NOTARY'S NOSE.
him attentively, admired the suppleness of
his muscles, the vigorous outline of his
jaws, and thought he had made a discovery
in natural history when he observed that
the cat is a miniature tiger.
"What the deuce are you looking at
there? " asked the Marquis, clapping him
on the shoulder.
He came to himself at once, and
answered in the easiest manner:' That dirty beast was attracting my attention. You would hardly believe, M. le
Marquis, the bother that those rascals give
us in hunting. They eat more coveys of
partridges than we shoot. If I had a
gun-" and joining the action to the
word he took aim at the animal with his
finger. The cat seemed to understand the
motion, jumped back and disappeared.
He appeared again a couple of hundred paces farther off, and dressed his
whiskers in the midst of a cabbage