CHAPTER X.
HE CATCHES A TROUT AND PRESENTS IT TO A LADY.
"Some achieve greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them." I think I have achieved greatness.

Of one thing I am convinced: that it is only necessary to do some one thing _well_--as well or better than any one else--in order to acquire distinction.

The thing I do really well--better than any living human being--is to blunder.

I defy competition.

There are champion tight-rope dancers, billiard players, opera singers, swindlers, base-ballists, candidates for the Presidency.