text:  Nor were portents and auguries wanting such as this--which made an uncommon impression on my excellent wife's mind--_videlicet_ it chanced that Alice Snowton did make a hat of paper to be placed on Charles's head when he was more than usually naughty to be called the fool's-cap out of derision; but this same paper hat which was of a fantastic shape being conical and high the boy with scissors did dexterously mutilate and nearly destroy and coming quietly behind me when I was meditating the future with my excellent wife he placed it on my head; and to all our eyes there was no mistaking the shape into which fortuitously and with no view or knowledge of such emblems he had cut the paper-cap