- "Do come away! I can't stand this squeezing any more. No crowded shops are comfortable, you know very well."
"Well, who expects to be comfortable, out shopping?"
"Why, I do, of course! And I'm sure there are some shops, further down the street, that are not crowded. So--"
- "They say no doctors are metaphysical organists: and that lets me into a little fact about YOU, you know."
"Why, how do you make THAT out? You never heard me play the organ."
"No, doctor, but I've heard you talk about Browning's poetry: and that showed me that you're METAPHYSICAL, at any rate. So--"
Extract a Syllogism out of each of the following: and test its correctness:--
- "Don't talk to me! I've known more rich merchants than you have: and I can tell you not ONE of them was ever an old miser since the world began!"
"And what has that got to do with old Mr. Brown?"
"Why, isn't he very rich?"
"Yes, of course he is. And what then?"
"Why, don't you see that it's absurd to call him a miserly merchant? Either