have tucked in at the
last moment. I like to have it with me more than I
can say. You must have bought it that last morning
when I had to leave you to go to Cambridge. I do
so like to own such a Betty! Why do you still wish
that you had come with me? Tideshead is much the
best place in the world. I send my dear love to
the best of aunts, and you must assure Serena and
Jonathan and all my old friends of my kind
remembrance. I wish every day that our friend Mr.
Duncan could have come with me. The country seems
more and more wide and wonderful, and I am quite
unconscious now of the motion of the cars and feel
as fresh every morning and as sleepy every night
as possible; so don't worry about me, but pick me
a sprig of Aunt Barbara's sweetbrier roses now and
then, and try not to be displeasing to any one,
dear little girl. Your fond father,

THOMAS LEICESTER.

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, _18th June._

DEAR BETTY,--The pencils all tumbled on the
car-floor out of my light overcoat pocket. I then
recalled somebody's command that I should put them
into the portmanteau at once, the day they came
home from the stationer's. I have found a
fortune-telling, second-sighted person in the car.
She has the section next to mine and has been
directed by a familiar spirit to go to Seattle.
She has a parrot with her, and they are both very
excitable and communicative. She just told me that
it is revealed to her that my youngest boy will
have a genius for sculpture. I miss you more than
usual to-day. You could help me with some copying,
and there is positively nothing interesting to see
out of the window; what there is of uninteresting
twirls itself about. We shall soon be reaching the
mountains, in fact, I have just caught my first
glimpse of them beyond these great plains. I must
really have some one to write for me next year,
but this winter we keep holiday, you and I, if we
get in for nothing new. It pleases me to write to
you and takes up the long day. You will have
fi