CHAPTER 2.XIX.
How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs.
Everybody then taking heed, and hearkening with great silence, the Englishman lift up on high into the air his two hands severally, clunching in all the tops of his fingers together, after the manner which, a la Chinonnese, they call the hen's arse, and struck the one hand on the other by the nails four several times.

Then he, opening them, struck the one with the flat of the other till it yielded a clashing noise, and that only once.

Again, in joining them as before, he struck twice, and afterwards four times in opening them.

Then did he lay them joined, and extended the one towards the other, as if he had been devoutly to send up his prayers unto God.

Panurge suddenly lifted up in the air his right hand, and put the thumb thereof into the nostril of the same side, holding his four fingers straight out, and closed orderly in a parallel line to the point of his nose, shutting the left eye wholly, and making the other wink with a profound depression of the eyebrows and eyelids.