380 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



March 25. — The children as well as myself have 

 had a lovely day with "Aunt Pauline." She was sweet 

 with them. We cut out animals and played menagerie 

 with our paper wild beasts and circus with our harle- 

 quins and riders in pasteboard and fine costumes 

 (the paper animals prove to be a great success) . After 

 Pauline had gone we read Rosy's Travels ; very tran- 

 quillizing. 



March 31. — Received Ulysses from Ida by this 

 day's mail and read it breathless through the whole 

 morning. The old legend is undying, since it awakens 

 poetry and imagination and beauty in these days 

 which are called prosaic. 



In a letter written to another friend during her stay in 

 Hamilton, Mrs. Agassiz says: 



My occupations consist chiefly in reading fairy 

 stories for the children and making clothes for their 

 dollies. I wish you could see them — they are very 

 dear little persons. 



They have just come into possession of a little 

 lamb. They have named it Flossie on account of its 

 soft white wool, and I am commissioned by them to 

 buy a bell and a blue riband for its neck when I go 

 to town tomorrow. 



I do not know that there is anything much nicer 

 than the companionship of little children, and I find 

 it quite difficult to tear myself away from my quiet 

 life here, as I shall do tomorrow for a day or two. 



The occasion referred to in the following selections was 

 the opening of the Geological Section of the Harvard Uni- 



