Then you remember that other saddle, the one with the spring under it." He said: "You mean 'the Spiral.'" I said: "I mean the one that jerked you up and down like a Jack-in-the- box; sometimes you came down again in the right place, and sometimes you didn't.

I am not referring to these matters merely to recall painful memories, but I want to impress you with the folly of trying experiments at your time of life." He said.

"I wish you wouldn't harp so much on my age.

A man at thirty- four--" "A man at what ?" He said: "If you don't want the thing, don't have it.

If your machine runs away with you down a mountain, and you and George get flung through a church roof, don't blame me." "I cannot promise for George," I said; "a little thing will sometimes irritate him, as you know.