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 larly, they have each settled a few of their wives there, so as to have a home at both places; so nothing can be more moral or comfortable. George and I are going to take advantage of the roads being watered to get away from the course, and we send on the riding horses and drive to them, and then ride into the lanes by by-roads. I have got a new horse, the last that came from the Cape; my first horse turned out too frisky in the cool weather. Webb says that during the number of years he has managed the Government House stables he has never seen a horse that could not be worked enough in this country, but Selim would take two men to ride him into good behaviour; so, as I have found him more than enough for one woman, I have changed, and this new horse is very quiet. George has one of his scientific parties to-night. Will you come and sit with me in the mean- time?

Yours most affectionately, E. E.