The latter was my traveling-companion on various trips which I took later in life.

"Dear Vandy" appears as my chum in "Round the World." Our neighbors, Mr.and Mrs.Stewart, became more and more dear to us, and the acquaintance we had before ripened into lasting friendship.

One of my pleasures is that Mr.Stewart subsequently embarked in business with us and became a partner, as "Vandy" did also.

Greatest of all the benefits of our new home, however, was making the acquaintance of the leading family of Western Pennsylvania, that of the Honorable Judge Wilkins.

The Judge was then approaching his eightieth year, tall, slender, and handsome, in full possession of all his faculties, with a courtly grace of manner, and the most wonderful store of knowledge and reminiscence of any man I had yet been privileged to meet.