One he told was of a German explorer to whom Don Pedro gave an audience.

The Emperor asked him, with some touch of patronage, if he had ever met a king before.

"Yes," the German said thoughtfully; "five, three wild and two tame." Mark Twain told some very funny stories, and captured me because I never thought him funny before, and Irving told some about Stanley, and everybody talked interestingly.

Irving said he was looking forward to seeing Dad when he reached Philadelphia.

"It is nice to have seen you," he said, "but I have still to see your father," as though I was not enough.