And down the slope a grand hotel, open for refreshment, though as yet it had no roof on; for the Major, in virtue of his charter, defied all the magistrates to stop him from selling whatever was salable on or off the premises.

But noblest and grandest of all to look at was the "Bruntsea Athenaeum, Lyceum, Assembly-Rooms, Institution for Mutual Instruction, Christian Young Men's Congress, and Sanitary, Saline, Hydropathic Hall, at nominal prices to be had gratis." "How you do surprise me!" I said to Major Hockin, after reading all that, which he kindly requested me to do with care; "but where are the people to come from ?" "Erema," he replied, as if that question had been asked too often, "you have not had time to study the laws of political economy--the noblest of noble sciences.

The first of incontrovertible facts is that supply creates demand.

Now ask yourself whether there could even be a Yankee if ideas like yours had occurred to Columbus ?" This was beyond me; for I never could argue, and strove to the utmost not to do so.

"You understand those things, and I do not," said I, with a smile, which pleased him.