You see the underlying scheme, yet the separate shoots are not quite mechanicalthey lean away from each other, that joint is a trifle shorterthere wasn't quite room at the start in that stem, and the pressure goes on showing right up to the top, I suppose our lives would look very nearly as geometrical to anyone who knewreally knew; but how little geometrical we feel!

"This joint looks a heap like a cellar.

" "My joints are my joints," he creaked stubbornly.

Indeed, that important joint of his person must have been a division by about two of what artists term heroic proportions, or eight heads to a height,a standard by which Button was barred from being a hero, for his head could hardly have been much less than a fourth of his entire length.

However, the-old gentleman, being stubborn as a horse-nail, persisted; the wife, still grumbling, calmed down; and the one joint of meat became an institution.

Outside the sheet you could see his right hand, rough and work-worn; a joint of the middle-finger was missingbut that did not matter, it was a peace injury.

The joint between the atlas and the skull is the fulcrum, the weight of the head is the resistance.

These joints are the most numerous in the body, as the elbow, the ankle, and the knee joints.