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174 in England, I may go to see you, but I will not take your money for such a purpose, however willingly and anxiously you may offer it; and I think that after these years of knocking about I am better cut out for life in a new country than in the old. Write to me all of you; I do not say write kindly, for you have always written so kindly that it cuts me to the heart. I'd rather have a box on the ear any day than such expressions of affection when I feel I do not deserve them; but write all about yourselves. I want to know everything that goes on at home, and what Tom and Charlie, and Lizzie and Jane are about. Tell me if here is any change in the house, if the old mossy apple trees are still bearing, if the elms where we used to go afar the rooks have been cut down, as was threatened to make nests for older friends still Tell me how the old squire keeps his health, and if he ever goes to Millmount to praise mother's poultry-yard and dairy now-a-days, and if Mr. Anthony has left Cambridge and come to Stanmore to live.

"I saw the Darlington crest the other day, where I had no idea of expecting to see it, and it brought old times to my mind. I would like to know how the young squire is thought of in the county and by the tenantry, and if his grandfather has better reason to be proud of