XXI. 



THE STEAM-CULTIVATOR." 



WHAT an irresistible tendency there is among men 

 to draw each other in caricature. How prone we 

 are to magnify those features in which the character 

 of another differs from our own ! I doubt not that 

 if Mr. Greening had described our late interviews, 

 ("if the lion had been the sculptor") our readers 

 would have been at least as much amused, the other 

 way. I should like much to see the "per contra" 

 that he would have drawn out. 



I am justly led to this conclusion because my notes 

 of our further conversations show how completely I 

 had under-rated both his interest, and his penetra- 

 tion, in the subject I had so suddenly broached 

 before him ; taking it too readily for granted, that a 

 thoroughly practical man, like himself, could not 

 stretch his imagination to the point required to 

 make him enter into my views, or the suggestions I 

 had made. 



