----, you like my mill.'
"'I do, sir, indeed, very much; it is certainly one of the greatest
improvements in the construction of saw mills I ever witnessed.'
"'You think the sails are so hung that it cannot fail to work?'
"'Certainly; it must work, it cannot help it.'
"'And there's always a wind upon that hill; if it does not come up one
valley, it is sure to come up the other; and the hill is so high and
steep that there is nothing to interrupt the full sweep of the wind,
come which way it will. You think, then, on the whole, that the thing
cannot fail of complete success?'
"'I should think so, sir, but for one thing.'
"'Ah! What's that?'
"'I have been wondering in my own mind, how you are to get up your
saw-logs.'
"Jefferson threw up his hands and eyes: 'I never thought of that!'
"The mill was abandoned, of course."
JEFFERSON AND THE JOCKEY.
"Jefferson's favorite exercise was riding. He was a judge of a horse,
and rode a very good one.
"One day, during his presidential term, he was riding somewhere in
the neighborhood of Washington, when there came up a cross road, a
well-known jockey and dealer in horse-flesh, whose name we will call
Jones.
"He did not know the President, but his professional eye was caught, in
a moment, by the noble steed he rode.
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