How they welcomed him! How they seized his hands and kissed them! How they cried and called him "Master," and "Victor," and "Hero!" It was a scene never to be forgotten!
When the excitement had somewhat subsided, they began to ask him questions. At last one of them wished to know how he contrived to find the North Pole and get back in safety?
"You intended to drift?" said they. "Great and glorious hero, victorious victor, triumphant explorer, did you do this?"
"I did," was the reply.
"And tell us what was your method of obtaining the knowledge you now possess? Oh, great chief, how did you manage it?"
Then came the answer—
"By sitting still, and doing nothing!"
And now it being dark, they separated to illuminate their homes in honour of the fresh industry—an industry admirably adapted to that great and contented class of the community, the Unemployed!
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