Now for the sake of an experiment, and for the clearer illustrating this matter--let us for a moment take off one of these two curious ornaments (I care not which) from the point or pinnacle of the chair it now stands on--nay, don't laugh at it, --but did you ever see, in the whole course of your lives, such a ridiculous business as this has made of it? 
Now, for the clearer illustration of this matter, let us take off one of these two curious ornaments (I care not which) from the chair. Nay, don't laugh - but did you ever see such a ridiculous business as this has made of it? 