Alas! what else had I to offer them! Not a penny.
I treasure the remembrance of this plan as the earliest evidence of organizing power upon the development of which my material success in life has hung--a success not to be attributed to what I have known or done myself, but to the faculty of knowing and choosing others who did know better than myself.

Precious knowledge this for any man to possess.

I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism--man.
Stopping at a small Highland inn on our coaching trip in 1898, a gentleman came forward and introduced himself.

He was Mr.MacIntosh, the great furniture manufacturer of Scotland--a fine character as I found out afterward.

He said he had ventured to make himself known as he was one of the boys who had gathered, and sometimes he feared "conveyed," spoil for the rabbits, and had "one named after him." It may be imagined how glad I was to meet him--the only one of the rabbit boys I have met in after-life.