I am often there on errands for Mr.Jefferson.Well, how go matters west of the mountains ?" "Christmas I spent at Louisville," answered Gaudylock, "and then went down the river to New Orleans.

The city's like a hive before swarming.
There are more boats at its wharves than buds on yonder Judas tree.

And back from the river the cotton's blooming now." "Ah!" said Rand, "I should like to see that land! When you have done a thing, Adam, a thing that you have striven with all your might to do, does it at once seem to you a small thing to have done?
It does to me--tasteless, soulless, and poor, not worth a man's while.

Where lies the land of satisfaction ?" "No," answered Adam, "I don't look at things that way.

But then I'm not ambitious.