"CHAPTER XXIV.
"JOW TO SETTLE A agrore

“© The first thing,” says the old cookery-
books in the recipe for cooking a turbot, “is
to catch a turbot.” Before you enter upon a
discussion, settle it clearly in your mind,
what it is you propose to discuss: How
many vain disputes, how many angry con-
troversies would be prevented, if the parties
would start with a definition,—if, before
beginning to cvok a turbot, they would catch
a turbot.

Some few years since, an American gen-
tleman, who did not understand the French
language, being in Paris, wished to go to
Bourdeaux. Accordingly he’wentdown to

the diligence office, and 1 g suchjin- |

quiries as he was able, paid his fare, entered

the diligence, and set off, as he supposed, for
Bourdeaux. Four days and_four nights he’

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