KISSING HER TOE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 24

KISSING HER TOE.

Daring his visit to Paris, M. Lasalle, a distinguished German, presented himself at the house of a well-known lady, to whom he had sent letters of introduction in advance. When the servant opened the door and received his card, she conducted him to the boudoir and told him to be seated, say* ing: ♦•Madame w m CGma immediately."

Presently the lady entered. She was in dishabille, and her feet were bare, covered only with loose slippers. She bowed to him carelessly and said : " Ah ! there you are ; good morning." She threw herself on a sofa, let fall a slipper, and reached out to Lasalle her very pretty foot. Lasalle was naiurally completely astounded, but he remembered that at his home in Germany it was the custom sometimes to kiss a lady's hand, and he supposed that it was the Paris mode to kiss her foot. Therefore, he did not hesitate to imprint a kiss upon the fascinating font so near him, but he could not avoid saying :

"I thank you, mid<une, for this new method of making a lady's acquaintance. It ia much better and c-rtainly more generous than kissing the han<!." The lady jumpei up, highly indignant. "Who are you, sir, and what do you mean ?" He gave his name. "You are not, then, a corn doctor?" "I am charmed to say, madame, that I am not."

"But you sent me the corn doctor's card." It was true. Laßalle, in going out that morning, had picked up the card of a corn doctor from his bureau and put it in his pocket. This, without glancing at, he had given to the servant, who had taken it to her mistress. There was nothing to do but to laugh over the joke.