"Not at all," said the traveller; "I tell you I want very little taken off, and must insist upon your doing as I direct you." The barber, however, was not to be put down in this way, and said, "Monsieur, it is possible that this is how things may be done in England, but here in France we are not slaves. I shall cut off as much as I please." End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895, by Various