LETTER III 



Death of Author's Donkey Burial Buflbn's Description of the 

 Ass Henry Moore, R.A. Anecdote of Tomtits Fighting 

 The Mild Winter. 



1st March) 1894. 



MY DEAR MARCO I think I never told 

 you of the great loss we sustained in the 

 death of our dear old favourite Rosie, which 

 took place last October. She was only ill, 

 apparently, for a day or two, and I was not 

 anxious about her, as she took her coffee and 

 some breakfast I gave her the day before 

 that on which she died, and seemed decidedly 

 better then ; but on Sunday morning we 

 found her lying on her side in the stable in 

 a state of collapse. I sent for the vet., who 

 came, but could do nothing except to pro- 



