CHAPTER XIV. 



THE FIRST AMERICAN TOUR 



Further Lecturing A Scientific Definition and its Effect The Critic before and 

 after the Lecture A " Reception " at Salem Lecture on the Horse's Hoof 

 Professional Jealousies An Opposition Lecture A Clever " Janitor "- 

 Americans as Tea-makers Bewildered "Waiters A Lecture over a " Dime 

 Museum " Performing Kaffirs The Zulu " Gentleman" North American 

 Indians The Great Sea-Serpent Its Skeleton, and Different Appearances 

 Article on the Subject in The Atlantic Monthly A Sea-Serpent Lecture 

 A " Leap Year Ball " Scene at the Supper Table Distribution of 

 " Favours" "Kitten and Grouse" Intense Cold Frost versus Fire A 

 Disagreeable Experience The Last Lecture of the Tour Publishing 

 Arrangements " Wooden Houses " Adding an Extra Storey Oranges as 

 they should be "Train Boys" A Theatrical Enterprise in the Oil 

 District A " Strong English Accent " American Nomenclature again 

 " Arctics "Further " Receptions "Departure from New York Results 

 of the Tour. 



MEANWHILE the business of the tour was going steadily 

 on. The last of the twelve Lowell lectures was given 

 on December 7th, with the usual success, and previously 

 to this four lectures (two on the " Entom archetype," 

 which had now been enlarged and extended, and two on 

 " Ant Life,") had been delivered at St. Paul's School, 

 Concord, North Hampshire. Concerning the opening 

 sentences of the first part of the former lecture, the 

 newspapers had something to say ; and I find the 

 following entry in the " log " : 



" A Boston lecturer is charged with using a dozen words in a 

 single lecture that are not in any dictionary ; he alone knows what 



