I should not care to associate with a hand grenade.

It is a matter of taste; I dare say I could learn to love a British tank, but I could never make a friend and confidante of a balloon.

An aeroplane might prove a good pal--we shall have to see.
Davy Crockett actually made a friend and confidante of his famous gun, _Betsy_.

And _Betsy_ is known in history.

It is said that the gun crews on armed liners have found this human quality in their guns, and many of these have been given names--_Billy Sunday_, _Teddy Roosevelt_, etc.
I need not tell you that a camp-fire is human and that trees are human.
The pioneers of old, pressing into the dim wilderness, christened their old flintlocks and talked to them as a man may talk to a man.