"DEAR SNOWY, ALSO FLUFFY:--Tu whit! She has
been gaining so fast this week, we shall soon
forget she has been ill at all. She can eat
anything she likes, and she likes a great deal.
Miss P. keeps exclaiming at her appetite.
Apparently the child never ate anything before
she went to school. The rule of the house is,
or was, one shredded wheat Abomination for
breakfast, one chop for dinner, one smoked
herring for supper. All this served on huge and
hideous silver dishes. This order is changed.
Miss Parkins almost fainted when I ordered the
first meal. She weeps every day over the
butcher's book, but the child fattens apace,
and all is well. I had to frighten her--the
aunt--a little, though, before things went
smoothly.

"Yesterday we explored the house, the Babe and
I. The amazing thing is that she lived at all
after she got her eyes open. Apparently every
article cost a thousand dollars; most awful old
mausoleum you can imagine; you never saw such a
place, for there couldn't be two. The bed I
sleep in has all-round curtains of apple-green
plush, with bead fringe three inches deep. The
mantelpiece and table-top and so on are gray
marble, and the ornaments are two deformed gilt
cherubs holding a slop-jar with a clock-face in
the middle of it. Also two unspeakable
alabaster jugs, three feet high, and two Parian
busts under glass cases. They are supposed to
be Luther and Melanchthon; I think they are
Lucifer and Mammon. Well, the poor little thing
is used to it, and doesn't know what is the
matter. Wait till Monday week,--I mean till
some future day,--and she shall know, but not
now. She doesn't think it a homelike house, she
says!

"I shall be coming back almost any time now, as
soon as I can get away. It's dreadful to leave
her,--'I'm wae to think upo' yon den, e'en for
her sake,'--but I must get back before exams,
and she is really all right, only not of course
wholly strong yet. She will come back next
term; and meanwhile she is to travel with an
old servant who was her nurse, and who has some
spark of humanity in her composition.