SATAN (impatiently) to NEW-COMER.

The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
-- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
We wandered contentedly around here and there in India; to Lahore, among other places, where the Lieutenant-Governor lent me an elephant.

This hospitality stands out in my experiences in a stately isolation.

It was a fine elephant, affable, gentlemanly, educated, and I was not afraid of it.

I even rode it with confidence through the crowded lanes of the native city, where it scared all the horses out of their senses, and where children were always just escaping its feet.