The habit of smoking had almost ceased from the face of the earth, but when he expressed a wish for that indulgence, enquiries were made and some excellent cigars were discovered in Florida, and sent to him by pneumatic despatch while the dinner was still in progress.

Afterwards came the aeronauts, and a feast of ingenious wonders in the hands of a latter-day engineer.

For the time, at any rate, the neat dexterity of counting and numbering machines, building machines, spinning engines, patent doorways, explosive motors, grain and water elevators, slaughter-house machines and harvesting appliances, was more fascinating to Graham than any bayadere.

"We were savages," was his refrain, "we were savages.

We were in the stone age--compared with this....