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effect of stops, etc. (my bed is quite comf.)." This casual 

 style is very characteristic of her, though what was the 

 connection in her mind between the two ideas no mortal 

 man can tell. 



Emma Darwin to her son Leonard. 



Summer, 1880. 



F. has no proof sheets and has taken to training earth- 

 worms but does not make much progress, as they can neither 

 see nor hear. They are, however, amusing and spend hours 

 in seizing hold of the edge of a cabbage leaf and trying in 

 vain to pull it into their holes. They give such tugs they 

 shake the whole leaf. 



