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any amount of digging, but sometimes visitors came who 

 were troublesome, and once a man came with a sledge- 

 hammer who was very difficult to manage. " That was 

 English all over," said he. Prince Leopold had been there. 

 '* I wish he would come again, he gave me a yellow boy." 

 They did not find much good about the worms, who seem 

 to be very idle out there. Mrs Cutting gave us a gorgeous 

 lunch and plenty of Apollinaris water. ... I was not so 

 tired as I expected, and F. was wonderful, as he did a great 

 deal of waiting out in the sun. To-day I am only dead 

 George came in just now with his lip cut from a fall off the 

 bicycle. It is a long cut but only superficial, and does not 

 want any surgery. I hate those bicycles. . . . 



Babsey is a little less troublesome, and if we can keep 

 Frank and Maryanne [the nurse] out of sight he is content 

 for a time. What he likes is to sit on Frank's lap and be 

 surrounded by all the rest, when he is very bold and much 

 amused. . . . 



This autumn my husband nearly died of appendicitis at 

 Engelberg, in Switzerland. My mother was boundlessly 

 good in her sympathy and help, even thinking it possible 

 she should come out to us. The following letter was written 

 after we had made our first stage home as far as Lucerne. 



Charles Darwin to his daughter Henrietta Litchfield. 



MY DEAREST HENRIETTA, DowN OcL 



I must write a line to tell you how deeply I have 

 sympathised with you in all your dreadful anxiety. We 

 were at first quite panic struck, and how we rejoice over 

 Litchfield's much better state. It astonished and delighted 

 us to receive his nice long letter. How I wish you were 

 safe at home, and that a law was passed that no one should 

 go abroad. I want to advise you to take a courier from 

 Lucerne; and so have no bothers on the journey. 



There ought to be another law not to ride horses, or play 



