hours were devoted to Kntomolo':'-}' and liis ardor bej.vme so intense, 

 that, having procured a furlough from military duty, he went to Africa on 

 a collecting tour and visited most of the museums and large private col- 

 lections of Europe. 



An unhappy disagreement with some of his fimilv led him to leave 

 his native country and settle in the Iniited States. He abandoned for- 

 tune and all prospects of preferment and came over with his wife as a 

 poor man. He laid aside all his titular and aristocratic honors and was 

 known among his neighbors as plain Mr. jenison. 



This was the gentleman whom I was going to visit. I was quite a 

 voung man and wanted to see and learn. I had never seen a live noble- 

 man. Since that time, I have seen manv with more names than dollars, 

 and more titles than shirts. 



On arriving at the village where the baron lived, I did not at once 

 go to his house. I was covered with Ohio dust and I went to a hotel 

 and spent more time in making my toilet than I had done for months. 

 I thought my appearance should correspond to the occasion. The bc>ot 

 black said that if he rubbed another hour at my boots, they would be as 

 thin as paper, and the chambermaid impudently asked me "whether I 

 intended to wash my own shirt.^". "Is soap scarce here.'" I rejoined. 

 'No Sir, but it will be if you stay here long" was the little min.x's an- 

 swer, as she bolted like lightning out of the room, just in time to escape 

 a blow from my slippers which 1 hurled at her head. 



After smoothing down every hair and adjusting my cravat verv 

 neatly, much to its astonishment, I ordered a coach and two. There was no 

 such vehicle in the village. I was told that I must walk. Walk! to a 

 nobleman's mansion? That was vulgar but I had to do it. 



I went. The house was pointed out. It was not a palace, not even 

 a splendid mansion; it was an ordinary house, very ordinary indeed. It 

 was located on the muddy tow path of a canal; it was constructed of un- 

 painted boards; pigs, fowls and dogs were enjoying themselves around 

 unmolested. I thought my guide had made a mistake. My fancy had 

 portrayed somethmg different: I had thought of columned porticoes, 

 massive gateways, a porter's lodge and liveried servants. My courage 

 began to rise, for verdant as I was, 1 was intimidated at the idea of en- 

 countering a learned nobleman in his stately mansion, but if his resi- 

 dence is so unpretending, thought I, his manners must correspond. 1 

 knocked. A plain, farmer-like man in shirt sleeves, stubby red beard, 

 coarse straw hat, shoes innocent of the stain of blacking and vest and 

 pants that had seen long and severe service, appeared. 



