hole County as being the
least practical person in the world, the most gullible and
credulous, you certainly seem to come out at the big end of the
horn.

You have managed to marry off your daughters very young, though in
my opinion they are none of them beauties. Your sons seem to be
able to support themselves. You have contrived to sell your
birthright to an oil trust and to lift the mortgage on Chatsworth.
Your servants stay with you until they die on your hands; and your
friends vie with each other in rendering service to you.

I can't understand it. You must be deeper than shows on the
surface. Anyhow, I take off my hat to you as being much more of a
personage than I ever gave you credit for.

I am going to give Molly, for a wedding present, the portrait of
our grandmother by Jouett. It is a valuable painting, so I am told,
but I have had it in the attic for years as I could not bear the
sight of it. You will remember it was the image of that impertinent
Sally Bolling, who seemed to have the faculty of making me appear
ridiculous. I never could abide her and hardly wanted to have her
picture in my drawing room. I always lost sight of the fact that it
was really our grandmother. I am afraid Molly is going to look like
it, too.

It is high time you were coming home. Now that you have managed to
marry Molly off, I should think you would have some feeling for me.
My health is very poor, and certainly your duty is to look after me
some and not give all of your time to your children. What with the
lawsuit that I have been forced into and the constant changing of
house-servants, I am in a very nervous condition.

Affectionately your sister,

SARAH CARMICHAEL CLAY.

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From Professor Edwin Green to Dr. McLean at Wellington.

My dear Doctor:

I have come to the conclusion that you can take a place by the side
of Dr. Weir Mitchell as one of the greatest nerve specialists of
this age or any age. I am taking your prescription in large doses:
deep full breaths of happiness and great brimming bowls of it. I am
feeling fine and my wife says I am getting fat.

We have had a splendid trip. I have been over the same ground
before, but it all seems new and wonderful to me. My wife's
knowled