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FLOAT dreamily 'twixt earth...
...fill the lucid interspace betwixt the earth and skies...
...same which once on earth we knew...
...heard of the "City of Peking," that triumph of the shipbuilding art, that was to show the essential superiority of the American genius to that of every nation on earth? To be sure, it cost very much more than it would have done had it been built on the Clyde, or in Patagonia for that matter, but then it was strictly national. Every false bolthead was stuck (sic) on by an American citizen. An American citizen built it, and an American company paid - or, to speak more accurately, did not pay - for it. An American company mismanaged...
...evening drew on a tug-boat came alongside to take this jolly band of managers of the "greatest company on earth" back again to their fond wives, etc. Unfortunately, both for us and the "etc.," they were all too drunk to be got gracefully down the side steps, and so it was discovered that the compasses needed regulating, and they remained there that night and the next day, fixing the compasses (which, by the way, we afterwards found to be all wrong) and getting sober. The next evening we finally got rid of them, to the great sorrow...