The notary's nose;

84 THE NOTARY'S NOSE.
" Certainly; I say it still."
"Very well; if I buy some poor devil's
nose, could you just as well graft it on the
middle of my face?"
"I could."
"Bravo! "' But I won't do it, and none of my colleagues would do it any more than I."
"And why not, if you please? "
"Because to mutilate a healthy man
is a crime, even if the patient were stupid
enough or hungry enough to consent to
it."
" Upon my soul, doctor, you confound
all my notions of justice and injustice.
For a hundred louis, I got as my substitute in the army, a sort of an Alsatian,
with a big brown beard. My man (he
certainly was mine) had his head carried
off by a cannon ball on the 3oth of April,
I849. As the cannon ball in question was
incontestably intended for me, I may say