Excerpt from Fun in a Doctor's Life: Being the Adventures of an American Don Quixote in Helping to Make the World Better, and How the Problem Was Solved for Him by Others, in England, France and Germany Twain suggested. A rail road and locomotive might have reduced the trip to minutes, if the children of Israel had not taken to the woods at sight of the anachronism. A month or so later, - think of being three months on a trip like that, - the captain was bawling angrily at the man at the wheel, Hard up! Hard up! And the poor chap evidently was pulling the wrong way, but with every snort of the captain's Hard up, he crowded the wheel further in the same direction. My little brother Albert translated the command into: Sopra! And the wheel flew around in the opposite spin; the captain including boy and steersman in his scowl. Thereafter the little fellow was looked for eagerly when the sailors puzzled over English orders from the officers, but the average Englishman thinks other languages have no rights they need respect. On arrival at New York, John Jacob Astor, the founder of Astoria, advised my mother in disposing of the marble statuary of my father. The bust of Daniel Webster, now in the Metropolitan Art Gallery in New York, brought $500, Henry Clay's bust a similar sum, and Washington Allston's friends pre sented the bust of that celebrated artist to the Boston Athenaeum, giving my mother a handsome amount for it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.