little toe-nail

— The other questions which have been proposed to both him and me, are—‘Will you vote for the ballot?’ ‘Will you vote for an extension of the suffrage?’ ‘Will you vote for shortening the duration of Parliaments?’ To all these he answered in the affirmative. But how absurd, I again exclaim, to ask the foot, say rather the little toe-nail or a pairing off it, what it will do? Why not ask the head? Ask Lord John Russell himself what he will do?