Pos. Set down that, clerk. He did not prohibit the registring the child in his own name. We our selves have observed one sign of fatherly tenderness; clerk, set down the water-pap he order'd just now. [Come we may]——
Foss. What a jargon is this!
Pos. Come we now, I say, to that which the lawyers call magnum naturæ argumentum, similitude of features. Bring hither the child, friend; Dr. Fossile, look upon me. The unequal circle of the infant's face, somewhat resembles the inequality of the circumference of your countenance; he has also the vituline or calf-like concavity of the profile of your visage.
Foss. Pish.
Pos. And he is somewhat beetle-brow'd, and his nose will rise with time to an equal prominence with the doctor's.
Town. Indeed he has somewhat of your nose Mr. Fossile.
Foss. Ridiculous!
Town. The child is comely.
Pos. Consider the large aperture of his mouth.