320 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. XI. 



with trees, behind which we see the sun set, and the stars 

 rise. 



" Further, after describing a faymale, something like your- 

 self in look, Pussy will signify that there is a spectacled 

 member of the other sex, lounging in an easy chair, making 

 pretence of studying and working. His name, Pussy will 

 spell for you, if you give her letters of the alphabet, taking 

 care, of course, that she is in the mesmeric rapture, and 

 putting down the whole alphabet before her on the floor. 

 She will then hunt among the letters till she finds one, 

 snatch it up like a mouse, and deposit it in a corner, then 

 another hunt, and another deposit, and so on, till the whole 

 word is made thus : D O S I E , which being 

 interpreted reads Dosie, a name given to me by, we won't 

 say whom, because I am always in a doze. You will then 

 unmesmerize Pussy, and give her a bowl of cream. Your 

 loving GEORGE." 



Such are the directions given to a sister to discover the 

 spring retreat. Notes to his mother speak of the house as 

 " delightfully situated, looking out over a wide stretch of 

 hill and valley, . with something higher than hills on the 

 horizon, a stream in the lowest valley-bed, and fields be- 

 tween, occupied at present by matron sheep with lambs, 

 some black, some white. One patient mother has, by 

 maternal right or adoption, both a black and a white lamb, 

 and I interpret her language towards the thirsty and impa- 

 tient couple to be 



* Drink fair, 

 My piebald pair.' 



" I wonder if an American ewe has ever one twin black 

 and the other white 1 I reckon not. The greatest nation 

 in creation would be endangered by such an event. Poor 



