"...there was something
in the comparison at the bottom, which
hit his fancy ; for which purpose resting
his elbow upon the table, and reclining
the right side of his head upon the palm
of his hand, -- but looking first steadfastly in the fire, ---- he began to commune
with himself and philosophize about it :
but his spirits being wore out with the
fatigues of investigating new tracts, and
the constant exertion of his faculties upon
that variety of subjects which had taken
their turn in the discourse, ---- the idea of
the smoak-jack soon turned all his ideas
upside down, -- so that he fell asleep almost before he knew what he was about..."