"H'm," said Goodsport. "This line running from the Mount of Cinderella to
the heel is the clothes line and denotes love of dress. This line crossing
it is the fish line and shows you are incapable of telling the truth."
Daisy flounced away, mad, and Mrs. Charity Givens, with some trepidation,
offered her ample and generous foot for dissection.
"A thorough, broad understanding and a friendly footing toward all,"
declared the solist, "and no danger of misunderstanding. However, your
broken headline indicates pugnacity."
"Nothing of the sort!" she snapped at him, and waddled away.
Goldwin Leathersham, greatly interested, insisted on having his pedal
interpreted.
"Mount of Atalanta highly prominent," said Goodsport, "that means you are
a runner, either for office or for pleasure. Here is a line meeting--that
indicates a railroad man. H'm. A well-developed football shows you have
been to college. You seem to be inclined to solemates--"
But Leathersham had taken to his heels.
"Please," said Iva Payne, gracefully offering her long psychic foot for
perusal.
"Ah, the poetic foot!" the soloist exclaimed. "There are two kinds of
poetic feet--the Iambic and the Trochaic. You have one of each. In poetic
feet the heels are often found in French forms.
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