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Updated: April 30, 2025
While the table was being cleared, the Major took forty winks on the sofa, and we two beat a retreat, lit up our pipes in the passage, and were just turning out when the postman's double knock came, but no showers of letters in the box. Derrick threw open the door, and the man handed him a fat, stumpy-looking roll in a pink wrapper. "I say!" he exclaimed, "PROOFS!"
He arrived in the city on the 8th of March , taking quarters at Willard's Hotel, where, when he went in to dinner, none knew "the quiet, rather stumpy-looking man, who came in leading a little boy the boy who had ridden by his father's side through all the campaign of Vicksburg."
The writer of these pages vividly remembers making its acquaintance at an early stage of his education a very fat, stumpy-looking book, bound in boards covered with green paper, and having in the text very small woodcuts, of the most primitive sort.
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