What is a Secret Society?
A Secret Society is a greater or less number of individuals who meet from time to time in the most secret way possible, in order to shout their secrets in each other’s ears at the top of their voices.
Force of Habit.—A well-known artist suffers horribly from corns on his feet. His toes, moreover, are deplorably sensitive, so that he calls out if they are scarcely touched.
It has gone so far that, when he steps on his own boots, which he has put out to be cleaned, he imagines that his feet are inside, and yells like one possessed.
“Ah-h-h!—body of a rhinoceros!!—look out! Where are you going?”
A pretended pilgrim, tramping about the country, sells little pieces of stuff, which, according to him, once formed part of the cloak of St. Martin.
“What are they good for?” asked a rustic, one day.
“They will keep out the cold,” replied the pilgrim, and salved his conscience by adding, aside—
“Taken in large quantities.”
At a country inn an English traveller ordered hare for dinner.