CHAPTER XXXII

----“Because,” quoth my great-grandmother, repeating the words again-- “you have little or no nose, Sir.”------

S’death! cried my great-grandfather, clapping his hand upon his nose, --’tis not so small as that comes to; ----’tis a full inch longer than my father’s. --Now, my great-grandfather’s nose was for all the world like unto the noses of all the men, women, and children, whom _Pantagruel_ found dwelling upon the island of ENNASIN. ------By the way, if you would know the strange way of getting a-kin amongst so flat-nosed a people----you must read the book; ----find it out yourself, you never can.----

--’Twas shaped, Sir, like an ace of clubs.

--’Tis a full inch, continued my grandfather, pressing up the ridge of his nose with his finger and thumb; and repeating his assertion----’tis a full inch longer, madam, than my father’s ----You must mean your uncle’s, replied my great-grandmother.

------My great-grandfather was convinced. --He untwisted the paper, and signed the article.

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