A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY AND QUITE INDISPENSABLE TO ALL THE CHAPTERS THAT FOLLOW.
As I always say, at our present pace of progress, what will things come to a thousand years hence?—Author, passim.
Having to describe, in these pages, a variety of persons and circumstances, connected with myself or my belongings and surroundings, immediate or otherwise, what so natural and fitting as that I should, first of all, treat
Of Myself and my Wife?
"Business first." That is my motto, and my wife and I are entirely at one there. We agree in a good deal more, I am happy to say. If we don't agree just in everything, that is hardly to be expected even of the best of wives. But, taken altogether, we are a happy family, with a happy home. "Home, sweet home," say I, " there's no place like home."
