6/41 "I've intelligence, practicability, knowledge; and in this age of science knowledge is wealth. Example: I saw a swell march out of this place that owns all the parish I was born in. I knew him in a moment--Colonel Clifford. Well, that old soldier draws his rents when he can get them, and never looks deeper than the roots of the grass his cattle crop. But _I_ tell _you_ he never takes a walk about his grounds but he marches upon millions--coal! sir, coal! and near the surface. |