For with mechanical enterprise there is no standing still. Man, so conspicuously unable to improve himself, is always making his inventions better.
A Friend of Man
In Two Parts
I. THE FALLEN STAR
Once upon a time there was a pug dog who could speak.
I found him on a seat in Hyde Park.
"Good afternoon," he said.
Why I was not astonished to be thus addressed by a pug dog, I cannot say; but it seemed perfectly natural.