"But, brother!" continued he, "suppose it should prove to be the shrub you speak of, what good would there be in our finding it, so long as we don't understand the process of manufacturing it into paper ?" "How do you know that we don't ?" said Karl, challenging the too positive declaration of Caspar.

"I am not so sure that we don't.

I have read the whole account of the process, as given by one of the old writers upon China.

It is very simple; and I think I remember enough to be able to follow it.

Perhaps not to make fine paper, that one might write upon; but something that would serve our purpose just as well.