MISS HENRIETTA WILSON. V 



room one passed away to join spirits made perfect ; the 

 ministering attendant who remained came forth an 

 angel unawares. 



To the little boy and girl, her cousins, now mother- 

 less like herself, she became more than ever as an elder 

 sister, and to their heart-stricken father her quiet 

 unassuming helpfulness was a strong consolation, as 

 well as that glow of goodness which nothing could 

 quench, that cheerful hope in God which nothing over- 

 clouded. Her beloved uncle she greatly resembled in 

 her playful good sense and pleasant ways, as wxll as in 

 that warmth of affection which was continually gleam- 

 ing forth from behind the veil of a habitual retirim^- 

 ness ; and she was like him in his love of humour, and, 

 we may add, honourably like him in possessing a power 

 of satire which was never used for the purpose of giving 

 pain. Many of his tastes had also become her own. 

 She was an excellent entomologist, and, as this volume 

 shews, she fully shared with the kind-hearted naturalist 

 his attachment to plants and animals, along with a 

 great admiration of Wordsworth, and such poets as 

 have looked on nature through their own eyes, and not 

 through the eyes of others. So, mainly through the 

 subtile charm of one bright presence, the winter retreat 

 in George Square and the summer residence at Wood- 



