And presently there appeared a white-bearded sacristan in a three-cornered hat of blue and gold and a gold-embroidered coat.

Some weeks previously, after the siege of Bologna had been raised by the Spaniards, there were distributed about at Rome little bits of paper having on them, "If anybody knows where the Spanish army happens to be, let him inform the sacristan of peace; he shall receive as reward a lump of cheese."

I asked the sacristan for the tomb of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

The professor of pathology came along, a man who had more the look of a sacristan than of a physician.

Enter SACRISTAN with Imperial messenger.