XXI. 



THE ' STEAM-CULTIVATOR.' 



WHAT an irresistible tendency there is amongst 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 penetration, 

 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 ima- 

 gination to the point required to make him enter into 

 my views, or the suggestions I had made. 



