There was much more which was curious, laid out in different books; but the call came for supper, and the young people obeyed.
XII.
JAMES NASMYTH.
THE STEAM-HAMMER.
"My dear Uncle Fritz, I have found something very precious."
"I hope it is a pearl necklace, my dear," was his reply, "though I see no one who needs such ornaments less."
Hester waltzed round the room, and dropped a very low courtesy before Uncle Fritz in acknowledgment of his compliment; and all the others clapped their hands. They asked her, more clamorously than Uncle Fritz, what she had found.
"I have found a man—"
"That is more than Diogenes could."