95.  “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—­”

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Extract a Syllogism out of each of the following:  and test its correctness:—­

96.  “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 he’s not a merchant, or he’s not a miser!”

97.  “It is so kind of you to enquire!  I’m really feeling a great deal better to-day.”

“And is it Nature, or Art, that is to have the credit of this happy change?”

“Art, I think.  The Doctor has given me some of that patent medicine of his.”

“Well, I’ll never call him a humbug again.  There’s somebody, at any rate, that feels better after taking his medicine!”

98.  “No, I don’t like you one bit.  And I’ll go and play with my doll.  Dolls are never unkind.”

“So you like a doll better than a cousin?  Oh you little silly!”

“Of course I do!  Cousins are never kind—­at least no cousins I’ve ever seen.”

“Well, and what does that prove, I’d like to know!  If you mean that cousins aren’t dolls, who ever said they were?”

99.  “What are you talking about geraniums for?  You can’t tell one flower from another, at this distance!  I grant you they’re all red flowers:  it doesn’t need a telescope to know that.”

“Well, some geraniums are red, aren’t they?”

“I don’t deny it.  And what then?  I suppose you’ll be telling me some of those flowers are geraniums!”

“Of course that’s what I should tell you, if you’d the sense to follow an argument!  But what’s the good of proving anything to you, I should like to know?”

100.  “Boys, you’ve passed a fairly good examination, all things considered.  Now let me give you a word of advice before I go.  Remember that all, who are really anxious to learn, work hard.”

“I thank you, Sir, in the name of my scholars!  And proud am I to think there are some of them, at least, that are really anxious to learn.”

“Very glad to hear it:  and how do you make it out to be so?”

“Why, Sir, I know how hard they work—­some of them, that is.  Who should know better?”

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Extract from the following speech a series of Syllogisms, or arguments having the form of Syllogisms:  and test their correctness.