t may do him no harm with his employers. He was then
unregenerate. I must certainly find him out and have a talk with him;
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the public.

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Footnotes

{1} The last part of Chapter XXIII in this Gutenberg eText.--DP.

{2} See Handel's compositions for the harpsichord, published by Litolf,
p. 78.

{3} The myth above alluded to exists in Erewhon with changed names, and
considerable modifications. I have taken the liberty of referring to the
story as familiar to ourselves.

{4} What a _safe_ word "relation" is; how little it predicates! yet it
has overgrown "kinsman."

{5} The root alluded to is not the potato of our own gardens, but a
plant so near akin to it that I have ventured to translate it thus.
Apropos of its intelligence, had the writer known Butler he would
probably have said--

"He knows what's what, and that's as high,
As metaphysic wit can fly."

{6} Since my return to England, I have been told that those who are
conversant about machines use many terms concerning them which show that
their vitality is here recognised, and that a collection of expressions
in use among those who attend on steam engines would be no less startling
than instructive. I am also informed, that almost all machines have
their own tricks and idiosyncrasies; that they know their drivers and
keepers; and that they will play pranks upon a stranger. It is my
intention, on a future occasion, to bring together examples both of the
expressions in common use among mechanicians, and of any extraordinary
exhibitions of mechanical sagacity and eccentricity that I can meet
with--not as believing in the Erewhonian Professor's theory, but from the
interest of the subject.

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