Dunlap and I got on the steamer _Paragoad_ one evening at Baton
Rouge, and seeing no one of board that I thought was of any particular
service to me, I got a bottle of wine and a good cigar and was
sitting in the hall, when a coal merchant whom I knew very well in
Baton Rouge came along, and seeing me said:
"Devol, this is rather a slim trip for your business."